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Military Article Photocopies available from Military/Info

• War Department, Ordnance Office. "Improved Capstan," by Capt.Henry Metcalfe. Ordnance Notes.—No.307 (Washington, 22 June, 1883); 3 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5307}
• Milliff, Mr.M.A." Depositing Material by Derrick Beyond Reach of Boom," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.VII, No.36 (November-December 1915); 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6227}
• Park, Lieut.Richard, Corps of Engineers. "A Field Pile Driver," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.III, No.11 (July-September 1911); 7 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6175}
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Cable, Chain,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20301} [Includes: Size, weight, and strengths of chain cable and common chain, Specification for chain cable]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Cable, Hemp,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20302} [Includes: Table of weights and strengths of cables and hawsers use for naval ships, up to 26 inches in diameter]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Capstan, Field,"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20306} [Portable windlass for field use]
• Royal Engineers, Corps of."Derrick (Sheers, &c.),"Aide Memorie to the Military Sciences (1853), Vol.1; 4 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20324} [Includes: General, Derrick, Getting in the bowsprit by the fore-yard, To get in a new mast by the old one, without sheers. Sheers: Getting in lower masts and bowsprit, Gyn]
• Keller, Major Charles, Corps of Engineers. "A Simple Derrick with Adjustable Boom," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers Vol.III, No.11 (July-September 1911); 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6177}
• War Department. "Weights of lifting jack."Instruction for Heavy Artillery (1863), Part III, Article II; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20677}
• War Department. "Dimensions and weights of gins."Instruction for Heavy Artillery (1863), Part III, Article II; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20678} [Includes: Field gin, Garrision gin, Casemate gin]

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