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English: Wiard 6-pounder gun and carriage of the American Civil War, designed by Norman Wiard.

Title: Annual report of the American Institute, of the City of New York
Identifier: annualreportofam186263amer (find matches)
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: American Institute of the City of New York
Subjects: Science
Publisher: [S. l. : s. n. ]
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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440 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. easier than the castings GC projecting the cover R in advance, canister is also adapted to smooth bore guns. The same THK CARKIAGES. The following figure represents my field gun mounted on my carriage, when limbered up and the locking shoe ad- justed as prepared to descend a hill. This cut is a cross section on the line SS of the H trail The stock is made in tlie form re- presented, and attach- ed to the under side of the axle by means of the bolts connected with a strong saddle resting on the top of the axle, as shown in the figure. By this means I am enabled to give a greater degree of elevation to the piece, and, at the same time, maintain the proper strength in the carriage to sustain the recoil when fired at such high elevation, and the carriages of a battery thus construct- ed occupy but about two-thirds of the space occupied by the com- mon United States carriage, when packed for transportation on cars or ships. It gives I'oom, also, to fix sponge and rammer, as seen in the figure, on top of the trail, where they are not exposed to being torn off or broken, as if below the trail. The cheeks embrace the upper portion of axle,
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1862-63
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