 | Charles Benjamin Norton - Firearms - 1868 - 304 pages
...Department, it was altered to the form represented in the accompanying diagram. For the compound backing, or alternate layers of timber and iron of the original...the shield, therefore, has a backing of plain bars 8" by 1", and the other half has bars which match or bind into each other. The latter were suggested... | |
 | United States commission to the Paris expos, 1867 - 1870 - 590 pages
...department, it was altered to the form represented in the accompanying diagram. For the compound backing or alternate layers of timber and iron of the original...the shield, therefore, has a backing of plain bars 8" by 1", and the other half has bars which match or bind into each other. The latter were suggested... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1870 - 586 pages
...department, it was altered to the form represented in the accompanying diagram. For the compound backing or alternate layers of timber and iron of the original...the shield, therefore, has a backing of plain bars 8" by 1", and the other half has bars which match or bind into each other. The latter were suggested... | |
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... the secretary of state for war. As originally proposed, the principle was the same as the Chalmers target ; but at the suggestion of the late iron plate committee, and the engineers of the war department, it was altered to the form represented in... 