[modeleng] Re: new website
- From: "Ken Strauss" <ken.strauss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:33:27 -0500
After a little Googling I found a claim that the gun was actually invented
by C.S. Dickinson but built by Winans. Perhaps US Paten 24997
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=QlhhAAAAEBAJ&dq=24997+dickinson ) is the
relevant one. It only indirectly used steam power to shoot the projectiles
using centrifugal force. See
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C0CE1D9133FEE34BC4B5
2DFB366838A679FDE&oref=slogin for the NY Times story on this weapon.
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> On Behalf Of Jesse Livingston
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>
> Anybody need a good recipe for gun cotton, that has just that extra bit
> of "whoomp"?.....
> Are is Tennessee deemed a dangerous enough place...?
>
> Patrick
>
> Sounds interesting Patrick, but I think I will stick to black powder. I
> have several pounds of that on hand for use in my "Kentucky" long rifle
> and
> the Coehorn mortar. I have made several nice brass cannon models over the
> years, but these were just for shelf displays for the most part although
> most could be fired if the need arose. Doubt that they would withstand gun
> cotton and besides, I got plenty cotton, but no nitric acid.
>
> A fellow by the name of Ross Winans tried to interest the Yankee war
> department in a steam cannon back in 1862, but he didn't meet with any
> success on that idea. I have never seen any drawings or photographs of
> the
> steam cannon or I might build myself a model of it. With the boiler
> pressures available at that time, it must have had a monstrous long barrel
> ("Tube" as artillerists call them) to be able to obtain any velocity and
> range. Possibly it was intended to be mounted on a rail car? That would
> solve the transportation problem considering the size and weight of the
> boiler. I could build the Winans cannon in 1/8th scale and pull it behind
> my
> American 4-4-0 at the Mid-South track near Nashville. Would make quite a
> show!!
>
> Jesse in Tennessee where we ain't forgot the "War of Northern Aggression"
> and never will.
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