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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five dollars reward (search)
Comprised bullets. --A machine has been invented at New Orleans, by which one thousand bullets per hour can be turned out.--The land is run or drawn out into round bars, about the size of the required ball, and by the action of a pair of shears is out off into sings of the required length. These drop into a die, and pressure, by an ingenious combination of machinary, applied to them so that with every revolution of the wheel a ball is finished and dropped into the receiver. Unlike cast or moulded balls, these are perfectly solid and smooth, and it is said go with the same accuracy from a smooth bore as from a rifled gun. If this be the case the invention is in valuable, as this single machine can soon turn out sufficient bullets for the whole Confederate army. The inventors are McClintock and Watson, who intend to take out a patent:--Memphis Daily Argus.