Hand-drawn invitation to gun club event between the Aurora Gun Club and the Meadows Gun Club. Presumably this competition was males (Aurora) versus females (Meadows).
Caption: "Discovery of a rebel batter and camp on Vernon River, Geo. Dec. 11th 1861, by the U.S. gun boats 'Ottowa,' 'Seneca,' 'Pembina,' and 'Mary Andrew' under command of Capt. Rogers of the 'Wabash.' Presented to Commodore Dupont with the...
There are 887 armor piercing 20 mm cannon shells visible in this picture, hardly more than one third the completely load for the three pods (under Navy A4 jet) of the HIPEG gun system developed by Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division, Culver...
An air gun is used to spray test colors on china and glassware in the laboratory of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department . In plant operation, automatic equipment replaces hand spray.
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Text from back of image: "The world's first aerial battleship, and the largest flying-boat in the Royal Air Force was recently launched at the works of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd., at Brough, Yorkshire, England. The machine is...
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