Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — UNCLE SAM'S BIGGEST GUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNCLE SAM'S BIGGEST GUN.

Mightiest of guns ever built In America, and one of the largest yet constructed anywhere, is the 16-lnch engine of war on which work is now being pushed at the Watervliet Arsenal. It will be 49.67 feet long, weigh 125 tons, have a range of sixteen miles, and will penetrate inches of the best steel armor at two miles. Mounted at Fort Wadsworth, in case of hostilities with Spain, this gun would be able to hurl a 2,376-pound projectile at a man-of-war before she got .within seven miles of Sandy Hook.