Norman Wiard

1826 – 1896

• Inefficiency of heavy ordnance in this country and everywhere, and about Parrott and other hooped guns
• Essays on boiler explosions
• Essays on boiler explosions, &c
• Explosions of boilers
• Facts about ordnance and the frauds and mismanagement of the Ordnance Department
• Great guns
• Iron vs. wood for great ships
• Marine artillery
• Memorial of Norman Wiard
• Memorial of Norman Wiard asking compensation for alterations in certain iron-clad steam transports
• Memorial of Norman Wiard asking reimbursement of expenses incurred in delivery of the steamers Augusta and Savannah at Hilton Head
• Memorial of Norman Wiard asking relief on account of unjust annulment of contract with the Ordnance Bureau, Navy Department, for manufacture of semi-steel, fifty-pounder guns and twelve-pounder howitzers