The Driggs-Schroeder system of rapid-fire guns; guns, mounts, ammunition
This 1896 ordnance catalogue, issued by the American Ordnance Company of Baltimore, presents the Driggs-Schroeder rapid-fire gun system to military and naval buyers through numbered plates of guns, mounts and ammunition. The plates are measured line drawings and photographs of equipment, showing sectional views, a recoil carriage in plan, and a row of shells beside a pair of cutaway gun tubes. A designer could draw on their clean technical diagrams, the restrained monochrome plate layouts and the period engineering lettering.
