Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Description of an artillery laboratory]

GLC02437.00542

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GLC#
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Type
Documents
Date
March 3, 1777
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
[Description of an artillery laboratory]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 16 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Plans for an artillery laboratory with "room for 60 men to work," store rooms, "an air furnace," shops for fifty carpenters, forty smiths, twenty wheel makers, as well as tin men and harness makers, "in all about 200 artificers." Plans also call for barracks for the workmen, as well as an academy there for the study of gunnery, a powder mill and magazines full of arms and powder. Text lost at the bottom of the document.

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