Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 502
emade in two lengths, and of varying thicknesses increased in steps from the muzzle to the chamber.Around the chamber three coils are placed over the A tube as far as the trunnion-coil, where theyare reduced to two, and finally to one for rather more than half the total length of the gun.… … are placed the hydraulic-brake cylinders, so as to take up the force of the recoil in the simplest andmost direct manner. The gun was loaded and worked entirely by hydraulic power, as shown in Fig.3261. A is the gun-platform, B the slide on which the gun recoils, C the sliding…
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