Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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United States. War Department. REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE . OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE , U. S. ARMY , Washington , October 28 , 1902 . SIR : 1. I have the honor to submit the following report of the prin- cipal operations of ...
United States. War Department. REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE . OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE , U. S. ARMY , Washington , October 28 , 1902 . SIR : 1. I have the honor to submit the following report of the prin- cipal operations of ...
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United States. War Department. increased compensation , in other departments ... Army of the Republic , and municipal corporations condemned ord- nance ... military posts during the past fiscal year , amounting to $ 244,787.52 , has been ...
United States. War Department. increased compensation , in other departments ... Army of the Republic , and municipal corporations condemned ord- nance ... military posts during the past fiscal year , amounting to $ 244,787.52 , has been ...
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United States. War Department. WINCHESTER RIFLES . 18. The 10,000 magazine rifles , caliber .30 , purchased in 1898 and 1899 upon the recommendation of the Commanding General of the Army , and reported upon unfavorably from the service ...
United States. War Department. WINCHESTER RIFLES . 18. The 10,000 magazine rifles , caliber .30 , purchased in 1898 and 1899 upon the recommendation of the Commanding General of the Army , and reported upon unfavorably from the service ...
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United States. War Department. improving the designs of seacoast carriages ... American Exposition , while imperfect , attracted favorable attention from ... Army , in letters dated October 14 , 1899 , and April 26 , 1900 , reported ...
United States. War Department. improving the designs of seacoast carriages ... American Exposition , while imperfect , attracted favorable attention from ... Army , in letters dated October 14 , 1899 , and April 26 , 1900 , reported ...
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United States. War Department. 51. These tubes are to be distributed one tube per post for each caliber and model ... ARMY AND NAVY MANEUVERS . 55. At the joint maneuvers which took place in the latter part of September in the New ...
United States. War Department. 51. These tubes are to be distributed one tube per post for each caliber and model ... ARMY AND NAVY MANEUVERS . 55. At the joint maneuvers which took place in the latter part of September in the New ...
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10-inch B. L. rifle allotment ammunition Appendix Armstrong Artillery Corps axle azimuth barrel battery Bethlehem Steel Company Board of Ordnance breech mechanism breechblock bullets caliber Capt cartridge centrifugal chest Chief of Ordnance Cockerill-Nordenfelt Cole construction counter-recoil cradle cylinders disappearing carriages distance Ehrhardt electric elevation engineering equipment experimental explosive feet per second field gun firing pin firing position Fort H. G. Wright Frankford Arsenal front fuse gun and carriage gun carriage instrument July limber long recoil machines manufacture material ment metal Meters mortar mounted nitrocellulose nondisappearing Ordnance and Fortification Ordnance Department ordnance officers pattern piece plate platform plunger pounds primer projectile proving ground R. F. gun rapidity rear recommended riage rounds screw seacoast shell shields shots of series shrapnel side impact sight smokeless powder spring Springfield Armory streaked hoop target telescope telescopic sight tion tube twist U. S. Army velocity Vickers-Maxim weight yards
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Page 246 - 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...
Page 260 - 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 260 - 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 243 plates, and other implements and engines of war...
Page 246 - Fortification, one hundred 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 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 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...
Page 260 - 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 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 3 - June 30, 1883, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require. The fiscal resources and expenditures of the Department during the year were as follows, viz : Amount in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriations on June 30...
Page 5 - Navy are each hereby authorized, in their discretion, to loan or give to soldiers' monumental 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 3 - SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the...