Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. Partly reprinted from "Engineering" (1920)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : Offices of "Engineering," 35 and 36, Beford Street, W.C.". · leaf 120
foot-tons perpound, and still later there were evolved explosive compoundsof which the potential energy per unit of weight was fourfoldgreater than in the case of gunpowder, namely, 1139 foot-tonsper pound. Finally, the explosive has taken the form ofnitro-compounds, which ensure slow burning,… … Cn <N ■2 O OS &h — £ w o w fc< h-l < o w CO HvlHH*t)M CO>H HCO 1-5 Improvements in Ordnance. 61 of the modern gun is enormously superior to the earlier built-upweapons, as around the inner tubes there is coiled something Table IV.Particulars of the Successive Large Naval Guns, 1800…
