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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.00542
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0016] January-April 1777 
Title Description of an artillery laboratory
Date 3 March 1777
Author Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Plans for an artillery laboratory with "room for 60 men to work," store rooms, "an air furnace," shops for fifty carpenters, forty smiths, twenty wheel makers, as well as tin men and harness makers, "in all about 200 artificers." Plans also call for barracks for the workmen, as well as an academy there for the study of gunnery, a powder mill and magazines full of arms and powder. Text lost at the bottom of the document.
Subjects Revolutionary War  Revolutionary War General  Military History  Continental Army  Artillery  Building Construction  Artisans  Education  Weaponry  Mill  Ammunition  
People Knox, Henry (1750-1806)  
Theme The American Revolution; Science, Technology, Invention; Industry
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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