The annexed engravings are views of im- I provements in breech loading fire-arms invented by Wm. W. Marston, of this city, auc fdr which a patent was granted on the 8th of January (1851,) also the ...

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The following is the result of the match, shot with breech-loading carbines of their own invention, between Lieut. Symmes, United States Ordnance Corps, and Mr. Gibbs, of New York. In May last a ...

This early 16th century cast iron, breech-loading cannon is the only one of its kind in Wales. It is designed to be carried on a ship of war and fired through a gun port on the side of the hull.