Published Resources Details Journal Article

Title
The largest dynamite gun
In
The Engineer
Imprint
21 August 1885, p. 140
Description

Accession No.2673

Abstract

It was reported in the New York World that "the most powerful gun in the world" had been built at Ribbon and March's workshops in Jersey City. The barrel was 60ft. long, breech-loading, and weighed 43 tons. It was built of brass lined wrought iron cast in four sections and weighed 43 tons.