Online access and copy requests are not available for this item. You may request to be notified of when this becomes available digitally.
- GLC#
- GLC05707.08
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1841
- Author/Creator
- Knowlton, Miner, fl. 1841
- Title
- Notes on Gunpowder, Percussion, Powder, Cannon and Projectiles
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 75 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Includes detailed schematic diagrams and sectional views of cannons, blast furnaces, projectiles, etc. Knowlton is listed on title page as Instructor of Artillery in the US Military Academy. Lithography by George Aspinwall at the U.S. Military Academy Press. Handwritten note inserted between pages six and seven states, "This belonged to my grandfather Charles Geddings Rogers when a cadet at West Point." Not bound with GLC05707.01-.07 but housed in same box. Possibly owned by Henry W. Halleck, who owned the other seven bound textbooks decimalized with this group.
Citation Guidelines for Online Resources
- Copyright Notice
- The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.