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Breech-loading rifled artillery
« on: August 21, 2009, 06:14:09 AM »
This article mentions many key developments in artillery during the 19th C. 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/new-navy2.htm

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Re: Breech-loading rifled artillery
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2009, 06:31:44 AM »
This book describes many of the 19th C. experiments with various designs for artillery:

Gun Making in the US, by Col. Rogers Birnie, 1907

http://books.google.com/books?id=lJtDAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA36&ots=I_vcX_fb1S&dq=first%20steel%20breechloading%20cannon%20in%20the%20US&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false