Memorial of the American Ordnance Company, relating to the armament of the fortifications, suggesting to Congress an improved system of ordnance, and proposing an economical, practical, and decisive series of experiments to test its value by firing guns of other most approved kinds in competition with them, to show the increase of power, endurance, range, precision, and general utility of the new kind over all others; showing, also, how a better armament for the fortifications may be procured, twice as powerful, and so much cheaper that $54,000,000 may be saved to the Treasury. The American Ordnance Company, by Norman Wiard, its Superintendent and General Agent, Washington.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs.

Contributor:

United States. Congress 1879-1881)

Series:

LexisNexis U.S. serial set digital collection

S.misdoc.89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--(46th : 1879-1881).

United States.

United States. Congress--History.

United States. Congress.

History.

Fortification.

Military weapons.

Ordnance.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

81 pages : digital, PDF file.

Other Title:

Memorial of American Ordnance Company on armament of fortifications, etc

Place of Publication:

Washington : [publisher not identified], 1880.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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PDF

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