File:Scientific American Volume 91 Number 09 (August 1904) (1904) (14781616321).jpg

Identifier: scientific-american-1904-08-27 (find matches)
Title: Scientific American Volume 91 Number 09 (August 1904)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: scientific portland cement american exhibit munn louis electric portland cement scientific american trunk pacific ten years american august average speed war department typewriting machine glass models grand trunk
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Groups of Thirty-three Lifelike Lay Figures, Showing the Uniforms of Officers and Men of the United states Army. To left and right the lower cuts show the uniforms worn in the Arctics and tropics respectively.
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Twelve-inch Spring-Return Seacoast Mortar for High-Angle Fire, Gun has a record of 30 per cent of hits. UNITED STATES WAR DEPARTMENT EXHIBIT AT ST. LOUIS FAIR. Photos taken for iheScientific American. striking is that shown by the War Department; andof the various elements of its display, the most at-tractive is the series of reproductions of coast defensesthat are arranged around the western end of the mainbuilding. Facing the northwestern angle of the build-ing are two emplacements—two reproductions of theactual fortifications—representing two disappearing Buffington-Crozier disappearing carriage, which em-bodies the latest improvements of the type. The car-riage with its gear weighs 411,826 pounds, and it costnearly as much as the gun to construct, or $41,000.The gun fires a 1,000-pound shell, with a muzzle veloc-ity of 23,000 feet per second, and it has an extremetheoretical range (which, of course, will never be used of the parapet, where it is loaded and sighted, therange be

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