Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 257
of course to the rear. Thatdifficulty which baffled the earliest attempts at breech-loading is thesame that has given much trouble to modern gunmakers. It consists inso closing the breech that no escape of the powder gases can take placethere at the moment of discharge. When we remember that… … Fig. 105. — The Citadel of Strasburg after the Prussian Bombardment., interspace between the base of the gun and the breech block, but we can-hardly realise without actual inspection the mechanical action they pro-duce in their passage : when once the escape occurs, a channel is cut inthe metal as…
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