Requests Support for Firearms Experiment
Document 1792Letter, discusses rounds of cartridges; asks more guns ordered. Chambers proposes a firearms experiment whereby 60 rounds are fired in 3 minutes time.
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Joseph G. Chamber May 4th 1797
The Hon.ble Henry Knox Secretary of War XXXI-72
Sign of the Lamb Market Street
May 4. 1792
Sir
I have prepared about Sixty rounds of Cartridge and am impatient to exhibit the Experiment. If you please Order me a Couple more Guns as I apprehend with twenty Shots the Gun will be too hot to proceed without Danger of bursting or other accident. And if the one should not work right I may have a shot an I would be sorry to Disappoint the Expectations which might be founded on my proposal. I expect to fire the Sixty rounds in three minutes if Nothing fails.
Be pleased Sir to appoint a time allowing two or three hours to put the Guns in order. I am Sir your most humble
Joseph G. Chambers
The honble Secretary of War
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