Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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... artillery . SIEGE ARTILLERY . 28. A new carriage for the 7 - inch howitzer has been built and tested . It differs from the former design principally in having the piece mounted at a height of 5 feet , instead of 6 feet above the ground ...
... artillery . SIEGE ARTILLERY . 28. A new carriage for the 7 - inch howitzer has been built and tested . It differs from the former design principally in having the piece mounted at a height of 5 feet , instead of 6 feet above the ground ...
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... artillery offi- cers , and a civilian mechanical engineer , and was directed to test the system by firing not only the thirty rounds from a 10 - inch disappear- ing gun prescribed by Congress , but also thirty rounds from a 10- inch ...
... artillery offi- cers , and a civilian mechanical engineer , and was directed to test the system by firing not only the thirty rounds from a 10 - inch disappear- ing gun prescribed by Congress , but also thirty rounds from a 10- inch ...
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... artillery districts a number of matters connected with the coast defense were given such prominence as to arrest thought , and thus to constitute practical les- sons as to necessary improvements and additions . The shipment of ...
... artillery districts a number of matters connected with the coast defense were given such prominence as to arrest thought , and thus to constitute practical les- sons as to necessary improvements and additions . The shipment of ...
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... artillery is not a success . Company commanders have repeatedly stated that they had not in their companies men of suffi- . cient skill to be intrusted with the execution of the most ordinary work of a machinist , and my own observation ...
... artillery is not a success . Company commanders have repeatedly stated that they had not in their companies men of suffi- . cient skill to be intrusted with the execution of the most ordinary work of a machinist , and my own observation ...
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... artillery with proper help in caring for the armament of the fortifications it is considered that the pay of these mechanics should be considerably increased , reducing , if necessary in order to meet the increased expense , their ...
... artillery with proper help in caring for the armament of the fortifications it is considered that the pay of these mechanics should be considerably increased , reducing , if necessary in order to meet the increased expense , their ...
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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...