Patent Model - Improvement in Percussion-Projectiles
Maker and role
Augustus McBurth (b.1810, d.1864), Patentee
Production date
Aug 21 1855
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood
Measurements
4 x 3 3/4" (10.2 x 9.5cm)
Description
McBurth's patent "consists in the construction of a bomb-shell (or missile) that contains all the properties of the cannon-ball, together, with a more destructive and certain effect than the bomb shell." (Patent number 13,469)
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Object number
2015.14.151a,b
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