Excerpt from On the Construction of Improved Ordinance: As Proposed in a Letter to the Secretaries of War, and of the Navy, and the Chiefs of the Bureaus of Engineers, and of Ordnance, of the United States
The following letter was forwarded to the five officers of the. United States Government to whom it is addressed, on the day of its date. It was sent in a printed form for their more ready perusal. As no notice whatever has been taken of it, the writer now lays it before the public, and especially before the members of the Congress of the United States. He has endeavored to state in the briefest possible form all that relates to himself, personally; and he now asks attention to the subject only in so far as it derives importance in relation to the National Defences, and as an investigation in a subject of practical science.
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