WOODCUTS. PAGE[Cannon of 1390]6[Iron ship gun of 1540]10[Paixhan gun and traversing bed]64[Carronade]67[New plan of casting a hollow axle]95[Mallet’s monster mortar]100[Russian 56-pounder]114[Eight-inch British gun]114[Sixty-eight pound carronade]116[Monck’s 56-pounder]117[Ten-inch or 86-pounder]117[Thirteen-inch sea service mortar]119[Thirteen-inch land service mortar]119[Welding steel]155[Wire twist and Damascus iron]160[Steel and iron twist]173[Spirals of Damascus, &c.]187[Spirals of charcoal] and [skelp]188[Spirals of Wednesbury] and [“sham damn” iron]189[Barrel welding]191[Method of plating barrels]195[Boring barrels]198[Sections of conical breeches, double barrel]209[London] and [Birmingham proof marks]251[Mode of proving guns]254[Sections of nipples]283[Expansive plug bullet]343[Enfield barrel and bullet]377[Whitworth barrel and bullet]377[Swiss bullet]391[Greener’s model carbine]401[Poly-groove rifle]403[Tranter’s double trigger revolver]421[Tranter’s double action revolver]424[Webley’s revolver]425[Harpoon gun]432[Shot tower]435