Machine Guns

Lieut. W. W. Kimball
December 1881
Machine guns are those engines of war constructed with a view of obtaining by mechanical means, and with a comparatively small personnel for their service, a greater proportional rapidity of ...

Professional Notes

December 1881
On Explosives.Explosive Gelatine.For more than a decade there has existed in Europe an active rivalry between the advocates of Nobel's dynamite and Abel's gun cotton as a military ...

Bibliographic Notices

December 1881
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.Bulletin No. 2, 1881. A cruise along the northern coast of Africa, by Lt. Comdr. H. H. Gorringe, U. S. N.ARMY AND NAVY GAZETTE.Dec. 3,1881. The following extract ...

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