Excerpt from Report of Experiments With the Seely and Bethell Processes for the Preservation of Timber: Accompanied by Descriptions of These Processes and of the Hayford ProcessGeneral: I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition Of the wooden platforms for guns and mortars, in the several works of defense under my charge, in response to a request from the Acting Chief of Engineers, under date of September 6, 1878.Since the year 1870, when wooden platforms for heavy guns and mor tars were first introduced, there have been made for the works under my charge, the platforms specified below, Viz.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.