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Excerpt from An Account of the Experiments Made in the French Navy for the Trial of Bomb Cannon, Etc
On the other hand, the introduction of steam is attended with such changes, that it is impossible to pass it by in speaking of improvements in the means of destruction. I also recommended it, and the Commission which examined my work in 1819, strongly advised a trial of steamers in connexion with the bomb cannon.
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