Download or read book On the Construction of Improved Ordinance written by Daniel Treadwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 IN the year 1840, I determined to attempt the con struction of cannon of wrought-iron, following cer tain theoretical principles which I had long held under consideration. I then had under my control a small forge and machine-shop, and several skilled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.