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U. S. F. S. "Brooklyn"

Description: Drawing of U. S. F. S. Brooklyn in profile that shows damaged sustained during battle with Spanish vessels on July 3, 1898. Damage is marked in red.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
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U. S. S. Iowa.

Description: Drawing of U. S. S. Iowa in profile that shows damaged sustained during battle with Spanish vessels on July 3, 1898. Damage is marked in red.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
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Batteries Facing the River at Vicksburg

Description: Map illustrating gun batteries along a river in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Below these river emplacements is a map of a battery at the hospital in Vicksburg, which includes some sketching of elevation. Scale 1:3,600
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. War Department.
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Magazine-Projectile

Description: Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
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Machine-Gun.

Description: Patent for a machine gun, meant to have relatively few parts, that includes a belt to carry a large amount of cartridges. The machine gun "provides a structure wherein the cartridges are positively and consecutively fed to the explosion chamber" (lines 11-14).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: McManus, Luis M. & Warner, James Harold
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Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers

Description: Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date: January 3, 1871
Creator: Booton, Sinclair
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Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1875
Creator: Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
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Improvement in Hair-Triggers for Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for "an improved trigger for fire-arms which shall be provided with a hair-trigger in such a way that the hair-trigger may be used or not, as may be desired, which shall be complete in itself, so that it may be applied to any kind of fire-arm without change in its construction" (lines 17-23), includes illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1879
Creator: Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
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Projectile

Description: Patent for an explosive projectile for use of penetrating and exploding ironclad and steel-clad ships, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 3, 1885
Creator: Hopson, Lucien
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Projectile for Fire-Escapes.

Description: Patent for a rope fire escape "in the form of a harpoon to which a chord or rope is attached, said device being projected from a gun or by any other means against the burning building with sufficient force to embed itself therein so that any suitable apparatus may be elevated to the building necessary for the escape of the inmates or so that the person or persons may descend by the rope attached to the harpoon" (lines 14-22).
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Martin, Johan
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Projectile.

Description: Patent for improvements in projectiles is to positively insure the explosion of the projectile at any desired point and the action is more reliable than is the case with time-fuses, where exact results cannot be insured, or with impact-projectiles, which explode when they come into contact with the armor. (Page 2, lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Densler, Nat
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Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms.

Description: Patent for discharging buckshot without reloading and with the precision of firing "a single bullet fired from a barrel of proper bore to fit it" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
Date: March 1, 1859
Creator: Haynes, William C.
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Projectile.

Description: Patent for projectiles, more particularly to an explosive projectile. "One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a shell of the character stated which may be produced at relatively small cost..."
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Wilkins, Willie A.
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Torpedo-Guard.

Description: Patent for torpedo guards that can be applied without needing to place the vessel in a dry dock, as well as giving the option of retracting the torpedo guards when not needed. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Rolf, Frederick G.
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Projectile.

Description: Patent for elongated, simple, and efficient projectile that enables it to remain on course including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: Fender, Brown
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Torpedo-Controlling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements to a torpedo controlling apparatus. Electrically operated wings or vanes are added to the exterior of the torpedo, allowing remote control from within an airplane. The position and angle of the wings or vanes affect the depth of the submerging operation.
Date: August 12, 1919
Creator: Longoria, Nicholas
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Multiple Submarine Destroyer

Description: Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an objec… more
Date: October 1, 1917
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
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Gun.

Description: Patent for an artillery gun which can be moved in any direction due to improvements in its base.
Date: October 14, 1919
Creator: Collier, William Reid
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Gun or Rifle.

Description: Patent for gun or rifle that automatically dislodges shell casing and replaces it with a new bullet, instead of requiring manual ejection of shell casing and reloading of bullet.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Douglas, William M.
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