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 51
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 … ARMOR. 37 of high explosives, that in any new designs for barbette ships the proportion of the length atthe water-line protected by the belt of armor should be increased, and that the armored bar-bette towers should be carried down far enough to prevent the possibility of the bursting ofshells…
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