Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 253
the counter-poise originally designed. There are in this hydro-pneumatic mountinga number of adjusting appliances, such as forcing pumps, brakes, etc.,for regulating the pressures, or quantity of liquid, as, for instance, whenlowering the gun without any recoil action in operation. Then again,with… … FIRE-ARMS. with great readiness. The nicety with which the parts are adapted toeach other in this mounting must be obvious, when we observe themagnitude of the mass to be moved with the least delay, and brought torest, quite gently and exactly, in a new position. Details cannot here begiven even of…
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