Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 290
274 MODERN GUNPOWDER AND CORDITE. Fig. 4. GUIPOWBEE TREE.— £wtc». QUICK FIRING … shewn, viz.: 3 of sulphur, 79 of saltpetre, 18 charcoal and water 1*7 and 2*2. The charcoal being composed of carboii, oxygen and hydrogen, straw being the material used for the new charcoal, and willow, dog¬ wood or alder for the other. Along the stem of the tree the different operations are…
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