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CLASS BOOK FOR THE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY HYTHE.
INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS
ERRATA.
HISTORY OF GUNPOWDER.
GREEK FIRE.
ON THE MANUFACTURE OF GUNPOWDER.
SALTPETRE, OR NITRE.
OLD METHOD.
NEW METHOD.
CHARCOAL.
SULPHUR.
PULVERIZING THE INGREDIENTS.
MIXING THE INGREDIENTS.
THE INCORPORATING MILL.
INCORPORATING THE INGREDIENTS.
BREAKING DOWN THE MILL CAKE.
PRESSING THE MEAL BY THE HYDRAULIC PRESS.
GRANULATING THE PRESS CAKE.
DUSTING LARGE-GRAIN POWDER.
DUSTING FINE-GRAIN POWDER.
GLAZING FINE-GRAIN POWDER.
STOVING OR DRYING POWDER.
FINISHING DUSTING.
EXAMINATION AND PROOF OF GUNPOWDER.
PROOF OF MERCHANT’S POWDER.
REMARKS ON THE PROOF OF POWDER BY THE EPROUVETTES.
OF THE SIZE OF GRAIN FOR GUNPOWDER.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF GUNPOWDER ON THE CONTINENT AND AMERICA.
PRODUCTION AND PURIFICATION OF THE INGREDIENTS.
PULVERIZING AND MIXING THE INGREDIENTS.
INCORPORATING PROCESS.
GRANULATING.
STOVING OR DRYING.
NEW RIFLE POWDER.
ON MAGAZINES.
LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.
ON THE EXPLOSIVE FORCE OF GUNPOWDER.
FOULING.
EFFECTS OF GUNPOWDER ON METALS.
MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS.
ON THE TIME REQUIRED FOR IGNITION OF GUNPOWDER.
EFFECTS OF ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSIONS OF GUNPOWDER.
ON ANCIENT ENGINES OF WAR.
THE SLING.
THE BOW.
MERITS OF THE LONG BOW.
Our Forefathers encouraged to acquire skill in archery by legal enactments, and by the founders of our public schools.
1ST. BY LEGAL ENACTMENTS.
2ND.—BY THE FOUNDERS OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
MEANS BY WHICH SKILL IN ARCHERY WAS ACQUIRED.
PROOFS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHERY.
MILITARY AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SKILL IN THE USE OF THE BOW.
THE ARBALEST, OR CROSS-BOW.
DESCRIPTION OF CROSS-BOW.
COMPARATIVE MERITS OF THE LONG AND CROSS BOW.
COMPARATIVE MERITS BETWEEN BOWS AND EARLY FIRE-ARMS.
HISTORY OF ARTILLERY.
ETYMOLOGIES.
HISTORY OF PORTABLE FIRE-ARMS.
THE BAYONET.
ACCOUTREMENTS AND AMMUNITION.
HISTORY OF THE RIFLE.
RIFLED BREECH-LOADERS.
ON RIFLING.
ON THE NUMBER, FORM &c., &c., &c., OF THE GROOVES.
ON RIFLE PROJECTILES.
CONCLUSION.
THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES.
DEFINITIONS.
MOTION OF A PROJECTILE.
GRAVITY.
ON THE TIME TAKEN TO DRAW A BALL TO THE GROUND BY THE FORCE OF GRAVITY.
ATMOSPHERE.
RESULT OF THE AIR’S RESISTANCE.
EXPERIMENTS IN FRANCE.
ON THE EFFECT OF THE RESISTANCE OF THE AIR UPON THE MOTION OF A PROJECTILE.
ON THE RESISTANCE OF A FLUID TO A BODY IN MOTION.
ON THE VELOCITY WITH WHICH AIR WILL RUSH INTO A VACUUM.
UPON THE RESISTANCE OF THE AIR TO BODIES OF DIFFERENT FORMS.
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH SLOW MOTIONS.
RESISTANCE OF THE AIR, AS AFFECTED BY THE WEIGHT OF PROJECTILES.
DEVIATIONS OF PROJECTILES FROM SMOOTH-BORED GUNS.
1st CAUSE, WINDAGE.
2nd CAUSE, ROTATION.
CASES BEARING UPON THE FOREGOING THEORY.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF ROBINS’ THEORY OF ROTATION.
ON ECCENTRIC PROJECTILES.
Extended Table of Contents
Transcriber’s Notes
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