Hand-book for Hythe: Comprising a Familiar Explanation of the Law of Projectiles, and an Introd. to the System of Musketry, Now Adopted by All Military Powers : with Numerous Illustrations

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Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - Artillery - 184 pages
 

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Page 116 - In my time, my poore father was as diligent to teach me to Shoote, as to learne me any other thing, and so I thinke other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bowe, and not to draw with strength of armes as other nations doe, but with strength of the body. I...
Page 116 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 38 - ... the smaller, the velocities being the same in both. 2. The round ends and sharp ends of solids suffer less resistance than the flat ends of the same. Thus, the sharp end or vertex of a cone is less resisted than the flat end or base. 3. Two solids, having the parts presented to, or which push the air, the same, are not equally resisted unless the hinder parts are also the same.
Page 9 - Switzerland an improvement is made by cutting a piece of very thin leather or fustian [a coarse, twilled material] in a circular shape, somewhat larger than the bore; this being greased on one side, is laid upon the muzzle with its greasy part downwards, and the bullet being placed upon it, it is then forced down the barrel with it. The riflings should for this purpose be shallow, and the bullets not too large. As this mode of loading took up a good deal of time, the rifled barrels made in England...
Page 19 - These barrels are loaded in the usual way, except that the ball should be sufficiently large to fill up the whole of the indentation; and it is said that such as are accustomed to these pieces will far outstrip anything that can be done with the common smooth-surfaced cylindrical barrel. It would be an improvement, though, instead of using a spherical ball with these pieces, if it were rather of an oblong shape.
Page 101 - ... at the time they are making their observations, in order that they may be accustomed to the changes made in the appearance of the several objects under their altered condition.
Page 118 - ... and high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious. Though from a remote and somewhat barbarous island, they yet believed themselves the most perfect men upon earth; and magnified their chieftain, the Lord Scales, beyond the greatest of our grandees.
Page 176 - Any cause which produces, or tends to produce, a change in the state of rest or of motion of a particle of matter.
Page 178 - Ib. per sq. in. Ans. (26) The center of gravity of a body is a point at which the whole weight of the body may be considered as concentrated. This point may be either inside or outside the body. See Art. 98. (27) See Art. 99. (28) Suspend the body successively from two different points and find the point of intersection of two plumb-lines from the points of suspension. The center of gravity will be on the line passing though...
Page 15 - of other days. It was, in fact, the very clumsiest and worst contrived of any firelock in the world. It required the largest charge of powder and the heaviest ball of any ; yet, owing to the absence of every scientific principle in its construction, its weight and THE ENFIELD RIFLE.

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