Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 259
ch it contained are streamed forward with actually greatervelocity than that at which the shell had been moving; and the effectproduced is similar to firing grape and canister from a smooth-borecannon at a short range. Segment shells were first brought into use by Lord Armstrong in 1858in… … Fig. 1051a:.—Tin Shrapjiel ana Segment Shells. cast into shapes which enable them to be built up inside the outer casinginto two or more concentric circular walls. The internal surface of theinmost wall forms the cavity of the compound or segment shell, and con-tains the bursting charge. The…
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