Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Miters. Fig. French Mitrailleur. MITRAILLEUR. 1455 MITRAILLEUR. The infernal machine with which Fieschi attempt-ed to assassinate Lonis Philippe in 1835, and suc-ceeded in killing eighteen persons, including Mar-shal Mortier, and wounding a large number of others,besides severely injuring himself, was one of the ear-liest attempts with which we are acquai
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Miters. Fig. French Mitrailleur. MITRAILLEUR. 1455 MITRAILLEUR. The infernal machine with which Fieschi attempt-ed to assassinate Lonis Philippe in 1835, and suc-ceeded in killing eighteen persons, including Mar-shal Mortier, and wounding a large number of others,besides severely injuring himself, was one of the ear-liest attempts with which we are acquainted forproducing a simultaneous discharge from a numberof gun-barrels. These were arranged side by sideon a bench or stand, and tired by a train, much asin the mode of firing liarrels in a proving-liouse. 1 That first tried in the French sei-vice was made iby removing part of the breecli from a brass field-piece and inserting twenty-five rifie-barrels, open atboth ends, into the bore ; these extended back, sothat their rear ends were flush with the face of thatpart of the breech in front of the opening, into whichwas inserted a case having a number of cylindricalopenings equal to that of the barrels, and filled withcartridges ; from these, by mea
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