Very Heavy Ordnance
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Military Technology, Political Economy |
Notes from the Mechanics' Magazine that Armstrong guns have cost the country £2,000 each, which, according to Punch, means that 'We ought to be able to knock La Gloire into atoms with our two-thousand-pounders'. |
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