ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT |
| Page | | Diagram illustrating Distortion of Frames under Load | 52 | | Diagram representing a Ship with Trussed Frames | 53 | | Typical Sections of “Symondite” and contemporary Ships | 59 | | Turkish Bronze Cannon | 68 | | French Twenty-four Pounder, with Spherical Chamber | 84 | | Savery’s Engine | 101 | | Newcomen’s Engine | 104 | | Connecting-rod | 111 | | A Carronade | 133 | | A Truck Gun | 147 | | Method of Gun-Exercise in H.M.S. Shannon | 155 | | A Paixhans Gun | 173 | | Bullet Mould | 187 | | Rifleman Presenting | 189 | | “Carabine À Tige” | 195 | | MiniÉ Bullet | 195 | | Whitworth Rifle Bullet | 198 | | Ship and Galley | 211 | | The Charlotte Dundas | 219 | | Pettit Smith’s Propeller | 235 |
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