Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 |
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Agave annealed Appendix Army Arsenal assorted band Barometer barrel belts blank cartridges bolt bore boxes bristles brushes bullet bundles caliber 45 caps carbine carriage cast-iron charge Chief of Ordnance combed cylinder disk Du Pont's elastic Elastic limit elevation Extension per inch feed magazine feet fibers flags Frankford Arsenal gallons gas check Gatling gun gauge Gun aimed hair hammers holes Hotchkiss humidity inch in length interior diameter iron July July 27 leather machine manufacture miles an hour muzzle Number oil-tempered Ordnance Department pins plates pounds powder pressure primers rear Rear-sight recoil Restoration per inch revolver Rock Island Arsenal rods round rupture Sandy Hook screws Sept Serviceable Serviceable Serviceable set per inch shell shot specimens sponges spring Springfield rifles square inch steel straps tampico thick varnish velocity Watervliet Arsenal Weight wind wire Worn Worn yards to left
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Página 15 - I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require.
Página 27 - Army, and they shall be receipted for and shall remain the property of the United States and be annually accounted for by the governors of the States and Territories...
Página 27 - If the articles so surveyed are found to be unserviceable or unsuitable, the Secretary of War shall direct what disposition, by sale or otherwise, shall be made of them ; and if sold, the proceeds of such sale...
Página 28 - ... full report thereof to the Chief of Ordnance ; and the Chief of Ordnance shall give attention to such programme of tests as may be submitted by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the record of such tests shall be furnished said society, to be by them published at their own expense.
Página 125 - ... and that they should all be reduced to the same scale for easy reference, and if possible be represented on the same sheet of paper. Also, that a full collection of all reports relating to the river should be made and carefully preserved, and that such as only exist in manuscript should be printed. There being no further business before the board, it adjourned sine die at 6.15 pm HARTMAN BACHE, Colonel Engineer!, Brevet.
Página 25 - Navy six officers, who shall constitute a board for the purpose of examining and reporting to Congress which of the navy-yards or arsenals, owned by the government has the best location and is best adapted for the establishment of a government foundry, or what other method, if any, should be adopted for the manufacture of heavy ordnance adapted to modern warfare, for the use of the Army and Navy of the United States, the cost...
Página 27 - ... provided for the use of the Regular Army, and they shall be receipted for and shall remain the property of the United States...
Página 30 - I have the honor to submit the following papers, heretofore referred to: Appendix 1.
Página 147 - SIR: In accordance with your instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of...
Página 241 - In speaking of this new feed, the Board say in their report : " The action is, as claimed in the inventor's description, positive and continuous as long as the gun is worked. The substitution of a positive action for one depending upon the carriage of the projectiles to the grooves of the carrier block by means of gravitation modified by friction, is a great improvement. The gun works as well when the feed ' magazine ' is horizontal as it does in an inclined or a vertical position. No jamming or...