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 514
rrested by stopsplaced so as to bring the hoist to rest when the projectile is in line with the bore of the gun. It isthen pushed off the truck into the muzzle, and rammed home by a hydraulic rammer, consisting ofa parallel tube in which runs a piston-rod armed with a rammer-head. A great advantage… … 494 ORDNANCE—GUN-CARRIAGES.
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