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• Architectura universalis, das ist, von Kriegs, Statt- und Wasser Gebäwen (Durch Johann Sebastian Medern, bestellten Buchtruckern daselbsten, 1635), by Joseph Furttenbach and Matthäus Rembold (page images at HathiTrust)

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• In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Monitor and the navy under steam (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1900), by Frank M. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Secretary of the Navy in relation to armored vessels. (Govt. Print. Off., 1864), by United States Navy Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our iron-clad ships ; their qualities, performances, and cost. (J. Murray, 1869), by Edward J. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die panzerschiffe der neuesten zeit. (Druck und commissionsverlag von C. Gerold's sohn in Wien, 1877), by Paul Dislère, Constantin Pott, and Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Hydrographisches Amt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stevens iron clad battery. (D. Van Nostrand, 1874), by New Jersey. Legislature. Commission to Effect the Sale of the Stevens Iron Clad Battery (page images at HathiTrust)
• La marine cuirassée. (Gauthier-Villars, 1873), by Paul Dislère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armor and ships : revision, Armor and ships, Journal U.S. Artillery, July-August, 1906, whole no. 80. (Coast Artillry School Press, 1910), by Journal of the United States Artillery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iron-cased ships. A series of lectures delivered before the Royal United Service Institution ([London], 1861), by E. P. Halsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our modern navy; illustrations of battleships, cruisers, monitors, gunboats and torpedo boats with full detail description of the material, displacement, dimensions, horse-power, speed, armor, batteries, caliber and fireing capacity of the guns, and the cost of the principal vessels in the United States navy and like details of the great navies of the world. (and New York, Rand, McNally & co., 1898), by Rand McNally and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Naval vessels. General. : pamphlet collection] (Various places, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merveilles de la science (Furne, Jouvet et cie, 1870), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Coles and the Admiralty : with an enquiry into the origin and qualities of the turret system of armour-clad war vessels (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The iron-clad ships of the world (U.S. G.P.O., 1875), by Paul Dislère and Richard W. Meade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers and discussions on ships, guns, and armor. Reprinted from various sources. (Govt. Print. Off., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torpilles et torpilleurs des nations étrangères, suivi d'un atlas des flottes cuirassées étrangères (Berger-Levrault, 1889), by Henri Pierre Gabriel Bûchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• What kind of armor shall we use? (s.n., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La faillite du cuirassé. (R. Chapelot et Ce, 1906), by Alfred Duquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval powers and their policy: with tabular statements of British and foreign ironclad navies: giving dimensions, armour, details of armament, engines, speed, and other particulars (Longmans and Co., 1876), by John C. Paget and St. James's Magazine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous ships of the British navy : stories of enterprise and daring of British seamen (Cornmarket Press, 1986), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Light-draught monitors [a report upon the construction of the iron-clad steam gunboats contracted for in 1862. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1865), by United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh give us a navy of iron : the popular naval ballad (Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, [1862], 1862), by Jas. W. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monitor schottisch (Cleveland : S. Brainard & Co., [1862], 1862), by Herman Th Knake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miantonomoh galop (New York : Wm. A. Pond, [1867], 1867), by Heinrich Fürstnow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial to the Congress, government and people of the United States : concerning several great inventions of national importance, and the infringements of a U.S. patent in building ironclad vessels and iron turrets (s.n., 1865), by William Beschke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplément à l'art naval à l'Exposition universelle de 1862, ou, Dernières inventions maritimes : d'après des documents récents (A. Bertrand, 1864), by Edmond Pâris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monitor builders : a historical study of the principal firms and individuals involved in the construction of USS Monitor (National Maritime Initiative, Division of History, National Park Service, Dept of the Interior, 1988), by William N. Still, United States. National Park Service. History Division, and United States. National Ocean Service. Marine and Estuarine Management Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navy ship donation procedures : hearing before the Military Procurement Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, hearing held, October 8, 1998. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1999), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Subcommittee on Military Procurement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Overview of US policy in Europe. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construction of the iron-clad Monitor (Govt. Print. Off., 1868), by United States. Navy Dept and United States Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Ellet and his naval steam rams (Harper & Bros., 1866), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The case against armed merchantmen. Timely reprints from the New York press. ([New York, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arming American Merchant Vessels : hearings before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Seventy-Seventh Congress, first session, on Oct. 13, 14, 1941. (U.S. G.P.O., 1941), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diplomatieke bescheiden betreffende de toelating van bewapende handelsvaartuigen der oorlogvoeernden en onzijdigen binnen het Netherlandsche rechtsgebied. Augustus 1914-November 1917. (Algemeene landsdrukkerij, 1917), by Netherlands. Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arming of American-flag ships engaged in foreign commerce : message from the President of the United States transmitting .... (U.S. G.P.O., 1941), by United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt), Franklin D. Roosevelt, and United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• A treatise on ordnance and armor: embracing descriptions, discussions, and professional opinions concerning the material, fabrication, requirements, capabilities, and endurance of European and American guns for naval, sea-coast, and iron-clad warfare, and their rifling, projectiles and breech-loading. (D. Van Mostrand;, 1865), by Alexander Lyman Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Congress has done concerning a government armor plant and what people are thinking about it. (Bethlehem steel company, 1916), by Bethlehem Steel Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board on the competitive trial of armor plates. ([Annapolis, Md.], 1890), by United States. Navy Department. Board on the competitive trial of armor plates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armor plant for the United States : hearings before the Committee on Naval Affairs United States on S. 1417, a bill to erect a factory for the manufacture of armor (Govt. Printing Off., 1916), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions and report of the special committee on iron, 1864. (Printed at the war office, 1864), by Great Britain. Special Committee on Iron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Annapolis armor test. (United States Naval Institute, 1890), by Edward W. Very (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument presented to the Secretary of the Navy for the establishment of the government armor plant in the vicinity of Petersburg, Virginia (National Capital Press, 1916), by Petersburg Petersburg Armor Plant Committee, LeRoy Hodges, and Inc Petersburg (Va.). Chamber of Commerce of Petersburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board on Fortifications or Other Defenses appointed by the President of the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885 ... (Govt. Print. Off., 1886), by United States. Board on Fortifications or Other Defenses, Joseph Morgan, William Thomas Sampson, Henry L. Abbot, S. V. Benét, and William Crowninshield Endicott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corazze per navi. (Forzani e C., 1897), by R. Bettini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armor and ships : revision, Armor and ships, Journal U.S. Artillery, July-August, 1906, whole no. 80. (Coast Artillry School Press, 1910), by Journal of the United States Artillery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballistic tests of armor plate as manufactured by the Carnegie Steel Company, limited, Pittsburg, Pa. ... (Chicago Photo-gravure Co.], 1898), by The Carnegie Steel Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armour, and its attack by artillery : supplement dealing with development of armour from 1887 to early in 1893 (Dulau & co., 1893), by Charles Orde Browne and Royal Artillery Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Air-hardening rivet steels ([U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Standards] :, 1927), by Harry Kurtz Herschman and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merveilles de la science (Furne, Jouvet et cie, 1870), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Coles and the Admiralty : with an enquiry into the origin and qualities of the turret system of armour-clad war vessels (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of statements to Congress and the public ([Soputh Bethelem?, 1916), by Bethlehem Steel Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the fabrication of iron for defensive purposes, and its uses in modern fortifications especially in works of coast defense [with Supplement]. (Govt. Print. Off., 1871), by J. G. Barnard, Peter Smith Michie, and Horatio Gouverneur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern armor for national defence, presenting practical information about material, methods of manufacture, cost, development, tests and application, effects of fire, resistance of plates, and a comparison of the results that have been obtained at the most important competitive trials, together with statistics (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1886), by William H. Jaques (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of armor for naval use (United States Naval Institute, 1883), by Edward W. Very (page images at HathiTrust)
• What kind of armor shall we use? (s.n., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armour, and its attack by artillery. (Messrs. Fulau & co., 1887), by Charles Orde Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the manufacture of armor plate for the United States navy. (American Iron and Steel Association, 1899), by American Iron and Steel Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the fabrication of iron for defensive purposes : and its uses in modern fortifications especially in works of coast defense. (Govt. Print. Off., 1871), by United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial to the Congress, government and people of the United States : concerning several great inventions of national importance, and the infringements of a U.S. patent in building ironclad vessels and iron turrets (s.n., 1865), by William Beschke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on ordnance and armor: embracing descriptions, discussions, and professional opinions concerning the material, fabrication, requirements, capabilities, and endurance of European and American guns for naval, sea-coast, and iron-clad warfare, and their rifling, projectiles and breech-loading. (D. Van Nostrand;, 1865), by Alexander Lyman Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on certain experimental and theoretical investigations relative to the quality, form, and combination of materials for defensive armor, together with incidental facts relative to their use for industrial purposes. (Govt. Print. Off., 1870), by William Rice King (page images at HathiTrust)
• A postscript to the section on Iron defenses, contained in the fifth ed. of "Naval gunnery" ; in answer to the erroneous principles set forth by the reviewer in the "Quarterly review" for October, 1860 (J. Murray, 1860), by Howard Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief of the Johnson City, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Elizabethton, Tennessee Board of Commerce : presenting the advantages and resources of the Watauga Valley, as the most suitable site for the location of the government armor plate plant, September 13, 1916 : supplemental brief, January 10, 1917. (Press of Muse-Whitlock Co., 1917), by Tenn.) Chamber of Commerce (Johnson City and Tenn.) Board of Commerce (Elizabethton (page images at HathiTrust)

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