Identifier: appletonsannualc13newy (find matches)
Title: Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York: Appleton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ing guns, see the following sections.) For the Cruisers No. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, thedesigns are not yet completed. The table indicatesthe general character for each class. Guns and Armor.—In 1885 the armament ofUnited States war-ships consisted of smooth-bore guns, principally of 9-inch caliber, supple-mented by a few converted 8-inch muzzle-loading rifles and converted 80 and 60 pounderbreech-loading rifles. The 8-inch convertedmuzzle-loading rifles were 11-inch cast-iron,smooth-bore Dahlgrens, converted into riflesby the introduction of a wrought-iron tube(which was afterward rifled) into the cast-ironbody, the latter being expanded by heat suffi-ciently to permit the tough wrought-iron tubeto be pushed into place. On cooling, the cast-iron body held the tube securely in place.The 100-pounder and 60-pounder Parrotts wereconverted into 80 and 60-pounder breech-load-ers in a similar manner by the introductioninto the bore of a steel tube extending from UNITED STATES NAVY. 793
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