Harry Vernon Staff Serjt. del.

Day & Son Lithrs. to the Queen.

[Larger Figs. 1-6]

Extended Table of Contents

PAGE
INTRODUCTION.[i]
CONTENTS[iii]
ERRATA.[iv]
HISTORY OF GUNPOWDER.[1]
GREEK FIRE.[4]
ON THE MANUFACTURE OF GUNPOWDER.[7]
SALTPETRE, OR NITRE.[7]
OLD METHOD.[7]
NEW METHOD.[8]
CHARCOAL.[9]
SULPHUR.[11]
PULVERIZING THE INGREDIENTS.[11]
MIXING THE INGREDIENTS.[12]
THE INCORPORATING MILL.[12]
INCORPORATING THE INGREDIENTS.[13]
BREAKING DOWN THE MILL CAKE.[14]
PRESSING THE MEAL BY THE HYDRAULIC PRESS.[14]
GRANULATING THE PRESS CAKE.[15]
DUSTING LARGE-GRAIN POWDER.[16]
DUSTING FINE-GRAIN POWDER.[17]
GLAZING FINE-GRAIN POWDER.[17]
STOVING OR DRYING POWDER.[17]
FINISHING DUSTING.[17]
EXAMINATION AND PROOF OF GUNPOWDER.[18]
PROOF OF MERCHANT’S POWDER.[18]
REMARKS ON THE PROOF OF POWDER BY THE EPROUVETTES.[19]
OF THE SIZE OF GRAIN FOR GUNPOWDER.[19]
OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF GUNPOWDER ON THE CONTINENT AND AMERICA.[20]
PRODUCTION AND PURIFICATION OF THE INGREDIENTS.[20]
PULVERIZING AND MIXING THE INGREDIENTS.[20]
INCORPORATING PROCESS.[21]
GRANULATING.[21]
STOVING OR DRYING.[21]
NEW RIFLE POWDER.[22]
ON MAGAZINES.[23]
LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.[24]
ON THE EXPLOSIVE FORCE OF GUNPOWDER.[29]
FOULING.[35]
EFFECTS OF GUNPOWDER ON METALS.[35]
MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS.[36]
ON THE TIME REQUIRED FOR IGNITION OF GUNPOWDER.[38]
EFFECTS OF ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSIONS OF GUNPOWDER.[38]
ON ANCIENT ENGINES OF WAR.[39]
THE SLING.[43]
THE BOW.[44]
MERITS OF THE LONG BOW.[45]
Our Forefathers encouraged to acquire skill in archery by legal enactments,and by the founders of our public schools.[47]
1ST. BY LEGAL ENACTMENTS.[47]
2ND.—BY THE FOUNDERS OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.[48]
MEANS BY WHICH SKILL IN ARCHERY WAS ACQUIRED.[49]
PROOFS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHERY.[52]
MILITARY AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SKILL IN THE USE OF THE BOW.[53]
THE ARBALEST, OR CROSS-BOW.[54]
DESCRIPTION OF CROSS-BOW.[57]
COMPARATIVE MERITS OF THE LONG AND CROSS BOW.[59]
COMPARATIVE MERITS BETWEEN BOWS AND EARLY FIRE-ARMS.[59]
HISTORY OF ARTILLERY.[62]
ETYMOLOGIES.[72]
HISTORY OF PORTABLE FIRE-ARMS.[73]
THE BAYONET.[83]
ACCOUTREMENTS AND AMMUNITION.[84]
HISTORY OF THE RIFLE.[86]
RIFLED BREECH-LOADERS.[92]
ON RIFLING.[95]
ON THE NUMBER, FORM &c., &c., &c., OF THE GROOVES.[96]
ON RIFLE PROJECTILES.[101]
CONCLUSION.[108]
THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES.[110]
DEFINITIONS.[110]
MOTION OF A PROJECTILE.[111]
GRAVITY.[113]
ON THE TIME TAKEN TO DRAW A BALL TO THE GROUND BY THE FORCE OF GRAVITY.[114]
ATMOSPHERE.[115]
RESULT OF THE AIR’S RESISTANCE.[115]
EXPERIMENTS IN FRANCE.[116]
ON THE EFFECT OF THE RESISTANCE OF THE AIR UPON THE MOTION OF A PROJECTILE.[117]
ON THE RESISTANCE OF A FLUID TO A BODY IN MOTION.[117]
ON THE VELOCITY WITH WHICH AIR WILL RUSH INTO A VACUUM.[118]
UPON THE RESISTANCE OF THE AIR TO BODIES OF DIFFERENT FORMS.[119]
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH SLOW MOTIONS.[119]
RESISTANCE OF THE AIR, AS AFFECTED BY THE WEIGHT OF PROJECTILES.[121]
DEVIATIONS OF PROJECTILES FROM SMOOTH-BORED GUNS.[121]
1st CAUSE, WINDAGE.[121]
2nd CAUSE, ROTATION.[122]
CASES BEARING UPON THE FOREGOING THEORY.[122]
ILLUSTRATIONS OF ROBINS’ THEORY OF ROTATION.[124]
ON ECCENTRIC PROJECTILES.[124]

[Original Table of Contents]

Transcriber’s Notes

The original language has been retained, including inconsistencies and errors in spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, etc., except as mentioned below.