 | Benjamin Robins - Calculus - 1761 - 402 pages
...barrels, which have been made in England (for I remember not to have feen it in any foreign piece) are contrived to be charged at the breech, where the piece is for this purpofe made larger than in any other part. And the powder and bullet are put in through the... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 414 pages
...charging at the mouth take up a good deal of time ; the rifled barrels which have been made in Britain, are contrived to be charged at the breech, where the piece is lor this purpofe made larger than in any other part. The powder and bullet are put in through the fide... | |
 | Benjamin Robins - Ballistics - 1805 - 404 pages
...barrels, which have been made in England (for I remember not to have seeh it in any foreign piece) are contrived to be charged at the breech; where the piece is for this purpose made larger than in anyother part. And the powder and bullet are put in ' through... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...charging at tiic mouth take up a good deal of time, the rifled barrels which have been made in Britain are contrived to be charged at the breech, where the piece is for this purpose made larger than in any other part. The powder and bullet are put in through the side... | |
 | Hans Busk - Artillery - 1860 - 226 pages
...caprice of the artificer." He then proceeds to describe the various modes of loading; adding, " But in some parts of Germany and Switzerland an improvement...when the piece is loaded, is fitted up with a screw;" adding, with singular sagacity, " somewhat of this kind, though not in the manner now practised, would... | |
 | Hans Busk - Artillery - 1860 - 250 pages
...the bullets not too large. " As this mode of loading took up a good deal of 10 HAND-BOOK FOR HYTHE. time, the rifled barrels made in England/' continues...when the piece is loaded, is fitted up with a screw;" adding, with singular sagacity, " somewhat of this kind, though not in the manner now practised, would... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 528 pages
...the groove, and the angle it makes with the sMe of the rectangle, the angle of inclination. piece) are contrived to be charged at the breech, where the piece is for this purpose made larger than in any other part; and the powder and bullet are put in through the... | |
 | Thomas Francis Fremantle - Rifle practice - 1901 - 626 pages
...barrels, which have been made in England (for I remember not to have seen it in any foreign piece) are contrived to be charged at the breech, where the piece is for this purpose made larger than in any other part. And the powder and bullet are put in through the... | |
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... laid upon the muzzle with its greasy part downwards, and the bullet being placed upon it, it is then forced down the barrel with it. The riflings should for this purpose be shallow, and the bullets not too large. " As this mode of loading took up... 