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Excerpt from On the Construction of Improved Ordinance: As Proposed in a Letter to the Secretaries of War, and of the Navy, and the Chiefs of the Bureaus of Engineers, and of Ordnance, of the United States
IN the year 1840, I determined to attempt the con struction of cannon of wrought-iron, following cer tain theoretical principles which I had long held under consideration. I then had under my control a small forge and machine-shop, and several skilled.
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