Text-Book of Ordnance and Gunnery [Textbook]

x, 705 pp. 8vo. Chapters include: Properties, Manufacture, Care and Use of Explosives; Theory of Explosives; Measurements of Velocities and Pressures; Interior Ballistics; Metals Used in Ordnance Construction; Guns; Recoil and Recoil Brakes; Artillery; Exterior Ballistics; Projectiles; Primers and Fuses; Aiming Devices; Fire-Control Instruments; Small Arms and Hand Arms; Machine Guns. Fourteen tables follow text.