Critical notes by Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Ch.-G. Bormann (1796-1872), a prominent military officer who served as an artillery officer in the Belgian military from 1832 to 1856, on the article "Nouveau Système de Shrapnells de lartillerie Néerlandaise", published in the first issue of the: Revue de Technologie militaire ou recueil de mémoires, expériences, observations et procédés relatifs a cette science, choisis dans les meilleurs écrits périodiques et non périodiques qui se publient et langues étrangères, ou empruntés a des documents officiels de dates récentes et provenant de tout autre pays que la France et la Belgique, a collection of articles, experiments, observations and books, edited, translated and/or written by the Belgian Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Delobel (1808-1888), director of the École de Pyrotechnie de Belgique at Liège. The first issue of the Revue de Technologie appeared in 1854 and the article is on pp. 79-111: in full: "Nouveau système ... Description, comte-rendu des experiences exécutes jusq à ce jour et modifications apportées au système à la suite de ses expérimentes. (daprès Bekopt Overzicht, publié en décembre 1853, par linspecteur general de lartillerie néerlandaise".
Bormann, the well-known inventor of the "Bormann time fuse" (playing an important ole in the Americal Civil War, sent his comments to Captain John A. Dahlgren (1809-1870), a highly influencial U.S. Navy officer, known as "the father of American naval ordinance", best remembered for designing the innovative cast-iron Dahlgren gun, who was assigned in 1847 to the Ordnance Bureau in Washington, where he revolutionised naval weaponry.
The envelope is brittle and damaged. The edges of the leaves are very slightly frayed. Otherwise in good condition. Cf. Bormann, The Shrapnel shell in England and in Belgium: with some reflections on the use of this projectile in the late Crimean War: a historico-technical sketch (1862); Johnson, Admiral A.B. Dahlgren: his life, times and technical work in U.S. naval ordnance, in: International Journal of Impact Engineering, 8,4 (1989), pp. 355-387; Jones, Artillery Fuses of the Civil War (2001).