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Description:Excerpt from Report: The Joint Committee Appointed Under the Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 30th of March, 1867, to Investigate the Purchases, Contracts, and Experiments of the Ordnance Department None of these systems have proved successful in preventing the burst ing of guns, or giving them uniformly reliable endurance. The com mittee do not think it necessary to discuss further the various European systems of gun-making. None of them have shown exemption from the rule of failure, and experiments with them on the part of this govern ment would be of doubtful value. The Rodman system, employing cast iron, has had the merit of cheapness, and when applied to smooth-bore guns has had claimed for it superiority over European sytems, but it must be considered to be equally a failure with the others, especially when applied to riﬂed guns. The Chief of Ordnance of the navy, in his last report, acknowledges this to be the case. He says: Opinions diﬂ'er quite as widely in regard to the preferable mode of developing ordnance power, whether it shall be by smooth or riﬂed bores, by loading at breech or muzzle, made from iron, cast or wrought, or from steel, solid or in connected parts. The relation of mass to velocity is also unsettled. In fact, the question involves the necessity of going back to fundamental principles, and starting thence by well-conducted experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Report (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Report (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Report: The Joint Committee Appointed Under the Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 30th of March, 1867, to Investigate the Purchases, Contracts, and Experiments of the Ordnance Department None of these systems have proved successful in preventing the burst ing of guns, or giving them uniformly reliable endurance. The com mittee do not think it necessary to discuss further the various European systems of gun-making. None of them have shown exemption from the rule of failure, and experiments with them on the part of this govern ment would be of doubtful value. The Rodman system, employing cast iron, has had the merit of cheapness, and when applied to smooth-bore guns has had claimed for it superiority over European sytems, but it must be considered to be equally a failure with the others, especially when applied to riﬂed guns. The Chief of Ordnance of the navy, in his last report, acknowledges this to be the case. He says: Opinions diﬂ'er quite as widely in regard to the preferable mode of developing ordnance power, whether it shall be by smooth or riﬂed bores, by loading at breech or muzzle, made from iron, cast or wrought, or from steel, solid or in connected parts. The relation of mass to velocity is also unsettled. In fact, the question involves the necessity of going back to fundamental principles, and starting thence by well-conducted experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Report (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Report (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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