Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 234
ge, are summed upand ultimately bring to an end what may be termed the life of thepiece. About the year 1858 Sir William Armstrong (afterwards Lord Arm-strong) established at Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne, a manufactory ofordnance, which has since developed into the great arsenal now so wellknown all… … FlG. 92.—i)QO-pounder Muzzle-loading Armstrong Gun. ment establishment trammelled with official regulations. Here, and alsoat Woolwich, our national ordnance factory, guns have since always beenconstructed on the building-up plan advocated by Sir W. Armstrong,whose principle consists in disposing…
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