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 613
3434. … 3485. calibre in length, filled with balls and closed at both ends with wooden or metal disks. Shrapnel isa thin-sided shell in which are placed, besides the bursting-charge of powder, a number of smallballs imbedded in sulphur. Examples of some of the various forms of projectiles are given in…
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