82 pages, about 8 1/2" x 11", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 82

• Metallic Cartridges (Regulation and Experimental) 1873 Frankford Arsenal
• Washington, D.C.
• Manufactured and tested at the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Ordnance by Major T.J. Treadwell, Ordnance Department
• Fully Illustrated
• Forward
• History
• Methods of Manufacture
• Methods of Testing
• Drawings of Metallic Cartridges as Made by the
• Frankfort Arsenal 1860-1873 for Military Service and Experiment
• Morse's Cartridge
• Burnside
• Maynard
• Rim Primed Spencer
• Primitive prior to 1866
• Colonel Laidley's Patent 1865
• Novelty Center Primed
• Service Cartridge
• Gatling
• Catling Canister
• Benton and Tibbals
• Benet's Service
• Colonel Crispin's Combination
• Martin's Cartridge
• Col. Treadwell's Experiments
• Corliss Front Ignition
• Prince's Experiment
• Milbank
• Col. Treadwell's Gas Checks
• Hotchkiss Solid Head'
• Dutch Musket and Carbine
• Farrington's Primer
• Navy experiment
• Pressures of crimped and non-crimped