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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 65 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 62 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 43 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 29 1 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 16 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1863., [Electronic resource] 13 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ttern smooth-bores, rifled and furnished with projectiles also invented by General James. Captain Parrott's gun soon followed James's. This was constructed by shrinking a wrought-iron reinforce over the breech of a cast-iron core, and was noted for its fewness of grooves and smallness of caliber in proportion to the weight of the projectile, which was very elongated. Wiard's gun was of steel, hammered and welded, and was accompanied by a peculiar and novel carriage. The 3-inch Ordnance or Griffin gun was finally adopted for rifled fieldartillery, and large numbers were in service at the close of the civil war in the United States. This is a wrought-iron gun weighing about 820 pounds, rifled with 7 grooves, and carrying a projectile weighing about 10 pounds. A cast-iron rifled siegegun, 4 1/2 inch caliber, and carrying a projectile weighting about 30 pounds, was introduced into the service at the same time. About 1812, Colonel Bomford, U. S. A., introduced a chambered gun called
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
d gives the specific gravity of the latter. See Mohr's specific gravity balance, pages 39, 40, Griffin's chemical handicraft. Spe-cif′ic-grav′i-ty In′--stru-ment. Professor Hare's litrameter, heat. If air be in excess, the mixture explodes, and the gas takes fire within the tube. See Griffin's Chemical handicraft, London, 1866, pages 96, 97. See also Die Spectralanalyse, Schellen, Bra24, 5925, 5926, 5927, show the mode of application, and several forms of the device. a, from Griffin. b, Rosette-burner (Griffin). c, Rosette-burner (Griffin). d, Bogart, 1867. e, AlleGriffin). c, Rosette-burner (Griffin). d, Bogart, 1867. e, Allen; patent, September 7, 1869. f, Bradley, 1865. g, McGlensey; patent, June 19, 1860. h, Osmond; patent, March 14, 1865. i, Griswold, 1868. j, Bloxam's Chemistry. k, Webb and Parkin,Griffin). d, Bogart, 1867. e, Allen; patent, September 7, 1869. f, Bradley, 1865. g, McGlensey; patent, June 19, 1860. h, Osmond; patent, March 14, 1865. i, Griswold, 1868. j, Bloxam's Chemistry. k, Webb and Parkin, 1871. l, Lazear and Sharp, 1868. m, Hamilton; patent, April 26, 1870. n, Bogart, 1866. Bunsen burners. Stove-damp′er. A shutter or valve to regulate the size of an opening at whic