[c.November 2, 1863]
I select you to make the test of the new gun-powder, according to the foregoing documents. Having expended some five thousand
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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dollars to be prepared for making the test, it is desired that it be most carefully and thoroughly made, and answers thereupon given to all the following questions, and any others which may occur to you as pertinent.
Does this powder contain saltpetre or sulphur?
Does it bear any relation to gun-cotten?
Can the ingredients for making it always be obtained in sufficient quantity in the United States?
Is it's manufacture simple, requiring no complicated apparatus, and is it attended with less danger than the manufacture of ordinary gun-powder?
Do atmospheric changes, whether of moisture or heat, injure the powder?
Will it explode with as little or less pressure than ordinary gun-powder?
Will it ignite under 300deg.. Celsius?
Will it ignite by a spark, or percussion-cap, like common gun-powder?
Are seven parts of it, in weight, as effective in smooth bored guns as nine parts of common gun-powder?
Is one part of it, in weight, as effective in rifled guns, as two parts of common powder?
Will it, or the ingredients of it, deteriorate in store?
Will it heat a gun less than common powder? and in what proportion?
Does it give a weaker report?
Does it make less smoke?
Does it foul a gun less?
Is it less liable to burst or damage a gun?
In proportion to effect produced, is it cheaper than common gun-powder?
Has it any fault or faults not stated, or suggested in and by the answers to the foregoing questions? and if so, what?