Introduction Notes James Gooding (1 results)
Published by Museum Restoration Service 0, E-367,381
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Museum Restoration Service, Bloomfield, ON, Canada. 1995. Vi, 134 pages. Illustrated. #109 of 650 copies. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremi…ties. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Part-history, part-technical study is the finest existing study of percussion cannon locks. John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (November 13, 1809 July 12, 1870) was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery. Dahlgren devised a smoothbore howitzer, adaptable for many sizes of craft and shore installations. He then introduced a cast-iron muzzle-loading cannon with vastly increased range and accuracy, known as the Dahlgren gun, that became the U. S. Navy's standard armament. EB; 134 pages.