Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 110
the effect of rifling, wind- relations of the material of a gun, and of age, and numerous other points with the rapidity of explosion of the charge, will be found in " Mallet on the Construc- which no doubt the final report of the committee will deal with exhaustively. A tion of Artillery," page… … burst before the shot is sensibly moved, It will be asked how it is possible that and the velocity attained by the latter is powder only exerting a propulsive strain of 15 tons per inch can drive a shot out of very slight." a gun with the same velocity as powder exerting twice the force ?…
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