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" ... caps within eight hours, stamping, filling, preparing, and varnishing them. These cap machines thus had a capacity of producing a million a day. These caps made at the arsenal were frequently tested, and pronounced to be superior in resisting effects... "
Journal of the United States Artillery - Page 307
1897
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volumes 25-26

Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 pages
...two being men, the others boys and girls, frequently manufactured from the strip copper over 300,000 caps, within eight hours, stamping, filling, preparing...inventor — an employee of the arsenal — the sum of $125,000, being an equal to §2,000 in gold. To manufacture the fulminate of mercury, we needed nitric...
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volumes 25-26

Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 pages
...two being men, the others boys and girls, frequently manufactured from the strip copper over 300,000 caps, within eight hours, stamping, filling, preparing...inventor — an employee of the arsenal — the sum of $125,000, being an equal to $2,000 in gold. To manufacture the fulminate of mercury, we needed nitric...
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Dr. William Le Roy Broun

William Le Roy Broun - 1912 - 274 pages
...of producing a million a day. These caps made at the arsenal were frequently tested and pronounced superior in resisting effects of moisture and in general...Confederate government awarded the inventor, — an employe of the arsenal, — the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, being then equal to two thousand...
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