 ... by further increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes, till the bore is quite full of powder. That this charge for th,e greatest velocity is greater as the gun is longer, but yet not greater in so high a proportion as the length of the...  Elementary Lectures on Artillery ... - Page 88by Charles Henry Owen, T. L. Dames - 1861 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 424 pages
...Penetratio>^ of Balls into solid Eln^wpod. Powder 2 4 8 07.. 7 16-6 13-5 189 21-2 18-1 20-8 20-5 Means 1 15 20 charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest ; and that by further increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1812 - 406 pages
...21-2 18-1 20-8 20-5 Means 7 IS 20 TRACT 37. Of GUNNERY. 215 that the velocity of the ball increases with the increase of charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest ; and that by further increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1812 - 624 pages
...of Sails into solid Kim wood. Powder 2 4 S oz. 7 16-6 13-5 18-9 21-2 18-1 20-8 20-5 Means 7 15 i 20 charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest; and that by further increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...course, Dr. Hutton proceeds — ' It farther appears also, that the velocity of the ball increases with the increase of charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest ; and that by farther increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 pages
...former course, Dr. Hutton proceeds— ' It farther appears also, that the velocity of the ball increases with the increase of charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest; and that by farther increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 604 pages
...balls, and charges of powder, &c. It further appears also, that the ve<locity of the ball increases with the increase of charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest; and that by further increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 862 pages
...both in practice and theory ; from which it appears that the velocity of the ball ¡r.creafes with the charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where the velocity is the greateft ; and that by farther increaling the charge, the velocity diminiihes... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1818 - 652 pages
...18-1 £0-8 20-5 Means 7 10 2O vharge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gao, where it is greatest : and that by further increasing the...charge, the velocity gradually diminishes, till the bore ia quite full of powder. That this charge for the greatest velocity is greater as the gun is longer,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...as in theory ; in consequence of which it appears that the velocity of the ball increases with the charge only to a certain point, which is peculiar to each gun, where the velocity is the greatest ; and that by farther increasing the charge, the velocity gradually... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1822 - 680 pages
...Balls into solid Elm wood. Pawder 2 4 1 8 bz . 7 16-6 13-5 18-9 21-2 18-1 20-8 - 20-5 Means 7 15 20 charge only to a certain point* which is peculiar to each gun, where it is greatest ; and that by further increasing the charge, the velocity gradually diminishes,... | |
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