wire-wound gun construction was intro- metal of the inner tube into a state of initial com- work -and endure the heaviest and most destructive duced, the credit for its inception being due to Mr. pression. The result of this is that the shock of dis- stresses, he would not be very far wrong if he… … the work that can be put into the development of the wire- wound steel is inversely proportional to system. Judged by the ballistic its bulk, it follows that, in the results achieved at the Government manufacture of ordnance, the small- proving grounds, it is—weight for er the section of the…
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