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Eleven ton cannon cast in Reading for new gunnery
An eleven ton cannon cast in Reading Pennsylvania is described as a breakthrough using an accelerating powder charge system. The steel ball, 150 pounds, could be fired twelve miles with 130 pounds of powder, surpassing other guns of the same calibre. The note also lists various 1881 deaths and a wealth of unrelated articles and anecdotes from the era.
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Reading
Fifth Avenue
Fifty—first
Eighth Streets
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Eighth Street
Madison Arena
la Stable
Jstable-Mann’s
Kemeys
San’s
Fitthaveland Ditty Street
Jlins Vanderbi Ion of & Marble
Ligle Conseratory
William L. Vanderbilt
William K
Maiet
Lizny
Paris
Gola
New York
Philadelphia
Sir John Lubbock
British Association
Croll and Gecrke
Croh and Stone
John Lub- Lock
Europe
John
Herbert See
Humboldt
Africa
Herbert Spencer
Massachusetts
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