1858 - MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION - 3 VOLUMES - H

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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION IN THREE VOLUMES - HALF LEATHER WITH MARBLED BOARDS AND MARBLED END PAPERS SCUFFING TO BOARDS FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED IN WOOLWICH 1858 ALL THREE VOLUMES HAVE FOLD-OUT MAPS, PLANS, DIAGRAMS ETC VOL III Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, first edition, 1858., 1858. Boards, 8vo, viii, 426 pp, ills, plans, tables, diagrams (some coloured and folding). A collection of nearly 50 technical papers and reports by various contributors, ranging from individual officers to scientific staff and select committees, presenting the results of current research and thinking on all aspects of artillery and ordnance about the time of the Indian Mutiny. Most of the pieces present the results of experiments or observations by officers of the Royal Artillery, but some report on European research. Subjects covered include such topics as : Mantlets for the protection of artillerymen from an enemy's rifleman; Navez electro-ballistic apparatus; Remarks on Iron Defences; Remarks on the system of Ordnance calculated to prove the most efficient against Iron clad Ships and Batteries; Account of Experiments against Iron-plates, carried on at Shoeburyness; Remarks on Permanent Forts and Moveable Floating Batteries as means of Defence against the Bombardment of our Arsenals and Dockyards by the Enemy's read more
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