, The gentleman whose name is identified with a very valuable mode of pi educing steel—Mr. Henry Be.-si. mer —has written, suggest!, g a mode of making steam directly applicable lor ™ the purposes of warfare, which, If successful, would supersede to a great extent the mitrailleuse. He propose* to apply the principle of ,tha‘ steam fira engine to the projection of bullets. Ho , calculates that, with a pressure of one hundred and fifty pounds of steam, one ounce and two ounce bullets might be projected with an initial velocity of one thousand six hundred or ope thousand eight, hundred feet per second at the rate of two thousand per minute of the smaller, and one thousand per minute of the laiger missiles. M>. Bessemer proposes to submit details to to the War Office ; bur, he seems confident of the practicability of opmbiuijio' the bullet projector with the , tractipn engine, and of so producing ifVdfliko machine of a most " formidable and deadly character.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 460, 10 February 1871, Page 2
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