Cheveaux de-frize, large joints or beams, stuck full of wooden pins, armed with iron, to stop breaches, or to secure a passage of a camp against the enemy's cavalry

Orgues, thick long pieces of wood, pointed and shod with iron, clear one of another, hanging perpendicularly each by a particular rope or cord, over the gate of a strong place to be dropped in case of emergency

A black and white photo of a stack of lumber. Office of War Information Photograph

Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Prefabricated timber prepared for timber connectors. Timber connectors are pressed steel rings or malleable iron plates and provide a larger supporting area than that attached by bolts, customarily used in joining timber

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Wood workers, too, have their place in building trucks for the U.S. Army. These men are assembling brackets and metal strips to the wood bows that support a ridge pole which extends the entire length of the body and gives added strength and support to the bows

A black and white photo of a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow lengths of molten steel--steel composed partly of roller skates, reapers, radiators and other scrap collected from America's homes and farms. This strip steel will see action as armor plate on the nation's tanks or battleships

Cheveaux de-frize, large joints or beams, stuck full of wooden pins, armed with iron, to stop breaches, or to secure a passage of a camp against the enemy's cavalry

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Print shows a wooden barricade for defending against a cavalry charge.

Illus. in: A new military, historical, and explanatory dictionary ... / Thomas Simes. Philadelphia : Sold by Humphreys, Bell, and Aitken, 1776.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 907.

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01/01/1776

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Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.

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