Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 49
s displacement, which 36 ARMOR. were not found to roll appreciably in any sea-way that permitted ordinary vessels to worktheir guns. In the barbette ships there was greater freeboard at the ends, four heavy guns placed highabove water in two separate barbettes, and a central battery, containing an… … anil gun-mountings the English type of barbette (Fig. 2) is held to bo far superior to that to befound in most foreign war-ships. It was decided, liowever, in view of the great development
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