Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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... elevation , would give an accuracy about equal to that of the regular cartridge at 1,000 yards . It was expected also to simulate the firing at 500 , 600 , and 800 yard ranges with the same cartridges , using the sight for the simulated ...
... elevation , would give an accuracy about equal to that of the regular cartridge at 1,000 yards . It was expected also to simulate the firing at 500 , 600 , and 800 yard ranges with the same cartridges , using the sight for the simulated ...
Page 54
... elevation . Ammunition and target practice . 3.2 - inch smokeless powder charges and shell charged with thorite mixture ; from Philippines . returned Drill cartridges for 6 and 15 pounder guns Reduced charges of smokeless powder for tar ...
... elevation . Ammunition and target practice . 3.2 - inch smokeless powder charges and shell charged with thorite mixture ; from Philippines . returned Drill cartridges for 6 and 15 pounder guns Reduced charges of smokeless powder for tar ...
Page 69
... Elevation changed about 15 ' at each shot after adjustment of carriage , and it was necessary for the gunner to hold the wheel to prevent loading movements from changing the azi- muth of the piece . When tripped the carriage did not ...
... Elevation changed about 15 ' at each shot after adjustment of carriage , and it was necessary for the gunner to hold the wheel to prevent loading movements from changing the azi- muth of the piece . When tripped the carriage did not ...
Page 71
... elevation of the site above the sea level does not materi- ally affect the choice of the style of carriage to be mounted . Rapidity of fire . - With the larger guns , 10 and 12 inch calibers , greater rapidity of fire was obtained with ...
... elevation of the site above the sea level does not materi- ally affect the choice of the style of carriage to be mounted . Rapidity of fire . - With the larger guns , 10 and 12 inch calibers , greater rapidity of fire was obtained with ...
Page 72
... elevation appear little , if any , more liable to derangement in one type than in the other . It is to be noted that the pressure in the recoil cylinders and equal- izing pipes of the nondisappearing carriages is greater than in those ...
... elevation appear little , if any , more liable to derangement in one type than in the other . It is to be noted that the pressure in the recoil cylinders and equal- izing pipes of the nondisappearing carriages is greater than in those ...
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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...