 | 1814 - 556 pages
...^ of the calibre, which is the usual size, no less than 3- or J of the powder escapes, and is lost. As the balls are often smaller than the regulated...half the powder is lost by unnecessary •windage. The conclusions which Dr Hutton has deduced concerning the resistance of the air, and the law which... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 424 pages
...indeed with the usual established windage only, viz, about ^ of the calibre, no less than between -j- and £ of the powder escapes and is lost : and as...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood,, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 404 pages
...usual established windage only, viz, about -fs of the calibre, no less than between ^ and $ of >tlie powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls are...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Ballistics - 1812 - 406 pages
...only, viz, about -fr of the 211? THEORY AND PRACTICE TRACT 37. calibre, no less than between | and f of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. 14. It appears too that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 624 pages
...the calibre, no less than between ^ and 1 of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls arc often smaller than the regulated size, it frequently...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 556 pages
...from a small degree in the windage : indeed with the usual established windage only, viz. about ^tk of the calibre, no less than between ^ and ^ of the...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. ' It appears too, that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...indeed with the usual established windage only, \iz. about -r^th of the calibre, no less than between 4- and ' of the powder escapes and is lost: and as the balls are often smaller than the reflated size, it t'rer quently happens that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. Tract... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...usual established windage only, namely, about -j-0th of the calibre, no less than between $• and J of the powder escapes and is lost. And as the balls are often smaller than that size, it frequently happens that \ the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. 4 8thly. It appears... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mechanical engineering - 1815 - 604 pages
...indeed with the usual established windage only, viz. about TJ- of the calibre, no less than between -f and •£ of the powder escapes and is lost: and as...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage." The valuable work from which the above quotation is taken will tend more than any other which has yet... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 618 pages
...the usual established windage only, viz. about <£% of the calibre, no less than between •£ and J of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting 'force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
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... different degrees of ramming, nor by firing the charge of powder in different parts of it; but that a very great difference in the velocity arises from a small degree in the windage.^ Indeed, with the usual established windage only, viz. about ^ of... 
