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Page 262 - Board of Ordnance and Fortification : To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war materials and articlesas may, in...
Page 262 - February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages...
Page 262 - That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the...
Page 3 - SIR : I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require.
Page 246 - Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon when employed on duty away from his permanent station of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance...
Page 262 - Fortification, fifty thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct...
Page 246 - That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Page 262 - ... test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.
Page 5 - Navy are each authorized, in their discretion, to loan or give to soldiers' monument associations, posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, and municipal corporations, condemned ordnance, guns, and cannon balls which may not be needed in the service of either of said Departments.
Page 100 - THE RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS REACHED. (1) The elastic limits of the hoops possessed the values indicated by the specimen tests. (2) Each hoop successfully endured 500 repetitions of a load closely approaching, but within the elastic limit of the metal. (3) The presence of streaks exerted a marked influence on the ultimate strength and elongation of the metal. (4) The actual bursting strength of the unstreaked hoop was 34,838 pounds per square inch above that of the streaked one, or corrected for the...