The hand-book of artillery

Name: The hand-book of artillery
Author: Roberts, Joseph

Roberts, Joseph

Artillery

DAY’S MARCH: Of field artillery, 153.
    DEFILADE: Definition, 156.
    DEPTH OF PENETRATION of balls, 149-50.
    DESCENT of falling bodies: Law of, 159.
    DIAMETER: Of coehorn mortar, 33;
      of eprouvette, 33;
      of stone-mortar, 33;
      of cast-iron shot, how found, 95;
      of shot, shells, and spherical case, 105;
      of vent, 16.
    DIMENSIONS: Of cannon, how regulated, 11;
      of a parapet to resist field artillery, 156.
    DIPPING OF THE MUZZLE, 77-8.
    DISCHARGES: Number an iron gun can sustain, 39.
    DISH, of a wheel, 124.
    DIRECTION, how given: To guns and howitzers, 51-2;
      to mortars, 56-8
      —At night, 55, 59
      —When wheels are not on same level, 54.
    DISTANCE: For firing field pieces, 46
      —Ascertained by sound, 151
      —Determined by a tangent scale, 158
      —Of recoil, 77
      —Of ricochet battery from object, 74.
    DISPART: Definition, 13.
    DOLPHINS: Definition, 19;
      pieces furnished with, 19.
    DRIVING OUT shot wedged in the bore, 21.

    ELEVATION: Necessity for, 51
      —How given to guns and howitzers, 52;
        to mortars, 56;
        instruments for, 52
      —Angle of, for mortars 67;
        greatest angle _in vacuo_, 66;
        angle of, for ricochet fire, 74.
    ELEVATING ARC, 18.
    EMBARKING: Artillery and its stores, 161-2.
    ENFILADE: Definition, 156.
    ENFILADING a work, 73-4-5
      —Object to be fired at, 73.
    EPROUVETTE, 11;
      form of chamber, 32
      —Calibre, 33
      —Use of, 34
      —Bed, 33, 131
      —Length of bore, 33.
    EXPANSION of hot shot, 96.
    EXTERNAL injury to cannon, 23-4.

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The hand-book of artillery

Roberts, Joseph

Artillery

DAY’S MARCH: Of field artillery, 153.
    DEFILADE: Definition, 156.
    DEPTH OF PENETRATION of balls, 149-50.
    DESCENT of falling bodies: Law of, 159.
    DIAMETER: Of coehorn mortar, 33;
      of eprouvette, 33;
      of stone-mortar, 33;
      of cast-iron shot, how found, 95;
      of shot, shells, and spherical case, 105;
      of vent, 16.
    DIMENSIONS: Of cannon, how regulated, 11;
      of a parapet to resist field artillery, 156.
    DIPPING OF THE MUZZLE, 77-8.
    DISCHARGES: Number an iron gun can sustain, 39.
    DISH, of a wheel, 124.
    DIRECTION, how given: To guns and howitzers, 51-2;
      to mortars, 56-8
      —At night, 55, 59
      —When wheels are not on same level, 54.
    DISTANCE: For firing field pieces, 46
      —Ascertained by sound, 151
      —Determined by a tangent scale, 158
      —Of recoil, 77
      —Of ricochet battery from object, 74.
    DISPART: Definition, 13.
    DOLPHINS: Definition, 19;
      pieces furnished with, 19.
    DRIVING OUT shot wedged in the bore, 21.

    ELEVATION: Necessity for, 51
      —How given to guns and howitzers, 52;
        to mortars, 56;
        instruments for, 52
      —Angle of, for mortars 67;
        greatest angle _in vacuo_, 66;
        angle of, for ricochet fire, 74.
    ELEVATING ARC, 18.
    EMBARKING: Artillery and its stores, 161-2.
    ENFILADE: Definition, 156.
    ENFILADING a work, 73-4-5
      —Object to be fired at, 73.
    EPROUVETTE, 11;
      form of chamber, 32
      —Calibre, 33
      —Use of, 34
      —Bed, 33, 131
      —Length of bore, 33.
    EXPANSION of hot shot, 96.
    EXTERNAL injury to cannon, 23-4.

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