It is a Model 1885 or Model 1897 breech loading cannon. There were only minor design differences between the two models, with 100 of the Model 1885 built and 262 of the Model 1897. This was the ...

DON IPPOLITO had slept upon his interview with Ferris, and now sat in his laboratory, amidst the many -witnesses of his inventive industry, with the model of the breech-loading cannon on the ...

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