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This
persevering
enemy
the
president
of
the
Gun
Club
had
never
seen
.
Fortunate
that
it
was
so
,
for
a
meeting
between
the
two
men
would
certainly
have
been
attended
with
serious
consequences
.
This
rival
was
a
man
of
science
,
like
Barbicane
himself
,
of
a
fiery
,
daring
,
and
violent
disposition
;
a
pure
Yankee
.
His
name
was
Captain
Nicholl
;
he
lived
at
Philadelphia
.
Most
people
are
aware
of
the
curious
struggle
which
arose
during
the
Federal
war
between
the
guns
and
armor
of
iron-plated
ships
.
The
result
was
the
entire
reconstruction
of
the
navy
of
both
the
continents
;
as
the
one
grew
heavier
,
the
other
became
thicker
in
proportion
.
The
Merrimac
,
the
Monitor
,
the
Tennessee
,
the
Weehawken
discharged
enormous
projectiles
themselves
,
after
having
been
armor-clad
against
the
projectiles
of
others
.
In
fact
they
did
to
others
that
which
they
would
not
they
should
do
to
them
--
that
grand
principle
of
immortality
upon
which
rests
the
whole
art
of
war
.
Now
if
Barbicane
was
a
great
founder
of
shot
,
Nicholl
was
a
great
forger
of
plates
;
the
one
cast
night
and
day
at
Baltimore
,
the
other
forged
day
and
night
at
Philadelphia
.
As
soon
as
ever
Barbicane
invented
a
new
shot
,
Nicholl
invented
a
new
plate
;
each
followed
a
current
of
ideas
essentially
opposed
to
the
other
.
Happily
for
these
citizens
,
so
useful
to
their
country
,
a
distance
of
from
fifty
to
sixty
miles
separated
them
from
one
another
,
and
they
had
never
yet
met
.
Which
of
these
two
inventors
had
the
advantage
over
the
other
it
was
difficult
to
decide
from
the
results
obtained
.
By
last
accounts
,
however
,
it
would
seem
that
the
armor-plate
would
in
the
end
have
to
give
way
to
the
shot
;
nevertheless
,
there
were
competent
judges
who
had
their
doubts
on
the
point
.
At
the
last
experiment
the
cylindro-conical
projectiles
of
Barbicane
stuck
like
so
many
pins
in
the
Nicholl
plates
.
On
that
day
the
Philadelphia
iron-forger
then
believed
himself
victorious
,
and
could
not
evince
contempt
enough
for
his
rival
;
but
when
the
other
afterward
substituted
for
conical
shot
simple
600-pound
shells
,
at
very
moderate
velocity
,
the
captain
was
obliged
to
give
in
.
In
fact
,
these
projectiles
knocked
his
best
metal
plate
to
shivers
.
Matters
were
at
this
stage
,
and
victory
seemed
to
rest
with
the
shot
,
when
the
war
came
to
an
end
on
the
very
day
when
Nicholl
had
completed
a
new
armor-plate
of
wrought
steel
.
It
was
a
masterpiece
of
its
kind
,
and
bid
defiance
to
all
the
projectiles
of
the
world
.
The
captain
had
it
conveyed
to
the
Polygon
at
Washington
,
challenging
the
president
of
the
Gun
Club
to
break
it
.
Barbicane
,
peace
having
been
declared
,
declined
to
try
the
experiment
.
Nicholl
,
now
furious
,
offered
to
expose
his
plate
to
the
shock
of
any
shot
,
solid
,
hollow
,
round
,
or
conical
.
Refused
by
the
president
,
who
did
not
choose
to
compromise
his
last
success
.
Nicholl
,
disgusted
by
this
obstinacy
,
tried
to
tempt
Barbicane
by
offering
him
every
chance
.
He
proposed
to
fix
the
plate
within
two
hundred
yards
of
the
gun
.
Barbicane
still
obstinate
in
refusal
.
A
hundred
yards
?
Not
even
seventy-five
!
"
At
fifty
then
!
"
roared
the
captain
through
the
newspapers
.
"
At
twenty-five
yards
!
and
I
'll
stand
behind
!
"
