File:Julien Bryan - Ambulance 646 - B.jpg

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English: World War I in Reims-Verdon sector, France. Original caption: "
Brass time fuse from a german "77" (3-inch shell)
  1. The time fuse assembled, ready to be screwed on to the shell proper.
  2. The top of the fuse which contains the spring and fulminate of mercury cap. The latter explodes from inertia on leaving the gun.
  3. First ring, with groove filled with powder which burns until it comes to hole in (4). It is ignited by the explosion of the cap in (2).
  4. Second ring, also filled with powder, which is ignited from (3) and which burns as far as the unit indicated on ring. This ring is set for the second at which it is desired that the shell shall explode over the enemy's lines.
  5. Base of time fuse. Upper part contains trigger and lower part tube through which the flame passes which explodes the shell itself.
  6. The covering over last part of passage.
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Source Bryan, Julien (1918) "AMBULANCE 464" Encore des Blessés, New York: Macmillan Retrieved on 30 November 2010. ISBN: 111081075X.
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Julien Bryan  (1899–1974)  wikidata:Q959506 s:en:Author:Julien Hequembourg Bryan q:pl:Julien Bryan
 
Julien Bryan
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Julien Hequembourg Bryan
Description American photographer, writer, camera operator and film producer
Date of birth/death 23 May 1899 Edit this at Wikidata 20 October 1974 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Titusville, Pennsylvania Bronxville Edit this at Wikidata
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