Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . a still more powerful weapon,the weight of the projectile and charge being 20 and 4^ pounds are used against inanimate objects, such as earthworks or buildings;but the great artillery projectile for the battlefield is shrapnel. It is nowvery different from the crude projectile
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . a still more powerful weapon,the weight of the projectile and charge being 20 and 4^ pounds are used against inanimate objects, such as earthworks or buildings;but the great artillery projectile for the battlefield is shrapnel. It is nowvery different from the crude projectile known by the same name in the earlyyears of the century. The bullets are assembled in circular layers and heldin position by separators, which are short cast-iron cylinders with hemi-spherical cavities into which the bullets fit. The bottom separator fits bymeans of lugs into recesses at the base of the shrapnel, and prevents inde-pendent rotation of the charge of bullets. The top separator is smooth onits upper side, and is kept firmly in place by the head of the projectile,which screws against it. The separators prevent movement or deformationof the bullets under shock of discharge, and being weakened by radial cuts,increase the effect by furnishing additional fragments of effective MODERN SHRAPNEL. The shrapnel for the gun contains 162 bullets one half inch indiameter and weighing 41 to the pound. The total number of bullets andindividual pieces in the shrapnel is 201. The heavy sea-coast guns are now mounted either in armored turrets, enbarbette, or on disappearing gun-carriages. The first system is very costlyand is not generally used in the United States. The second system, in whichthe guns are fired over a parapet and are constantly exposed, is used onlyin rare cases. The third has been perfected in the United States in theBuffington-Crozier and the Gordon disappearing gun-carriages. These car-riages enable the gun to be loaded in safety under cover of
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