. Harper's weekly. JUNAJ. UuX (i| M-HMARINE REBEL SCflMAREKB flATTElvY. HARPERS WEEKLY. [January 30, 1864. THE MOONLIGHT LONG AGO. i the nimmli^ht long ago, wife, Though sadly at a loss.:ou hung your pretty head thAnd angered very low; n/arLu knew what you >aid t ARMSTRONGS 600-POUNDER. The latest reports from England bring us an ac-count of a new gun, of extraordinary ,weighing no less than 22* tons. This enormousbit of artillery has been built by Sir William Arm-strong, under the auspices of the Hritish Govern-ment, and has been lately tested off Shoebu
. Harper's weekly. JUNAJ. UuX (i| M-HMARINE REBEL SCflMAREKB flATTElvY. HARPERS WEEKLY. [January 30, 1864. THE MOONLIGHT LONG AGO. i the nimmli^ht long ago, wife, Though sadly at a loss.:ou hung your pretty head thAnd angered very low; n/arLu knew what you >aid t ARMSTRONGS 600-POUNDER. The latest reports from England bring us an ac-count of a new gun, of extraordinary ,weighing no less than 22* tons. This enormousbit of artillery has been built by Sir William Arm-strong, under the auspices of the Hritish Govern-ment, and has been lately tested off sketch of the gun will be found on page 76. Ithas been built, wo say; for a piece of this size couldnot possibly have been forged as a whole. Theprinciple upon which it is constructed is that thegreatest strain comes at the breech; and in accord-ance with this principle, the immense weight is dis-tributed, by means of laminal cylinders of differentlengths, as seen in the illustration. This has beenthe principle involved in all Armstrong guns; thenovel f
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