D. VAN NOSTBAND. 33
Holley’s Ordnance and Armor.
493 Engravings. Half Roan, $10.00. Half Russia, $12.00.
A TBEATISE ON OEDNANCE AND AEMOE—Embracing
Descriptions, Discussions, and Professional Opinions concerning
the Material, Eabrication, Bequirements, Capabilities, and En-
durance of European and American Guns, for Naval, Sea Coast,
and Iron-clad Warfare, and their Biflixg, Projectiles, and
Breech-Loading; also, Eesults of Experiments against Armor,
from Official Eecords, with an Appendix referring to Gun-Cotton,
Hooped Guns, etc., etc. liy Alexander L. Holley, B. P. 948
pages, 493 Engravings, and 147 Tables of Eesults, etc.
Contents.
Chaptek I.-—Standard Guns and their Fabrieation Described: Seetion 1.
Hooped Guns; Seetion 2. Solid Wrought Iron Guns; Seetion 3. Solid Steel
Guns; Seetion 4. Cast-Iron Guns. Charter II.—The Eequirements of Guns,
Armor: Seetion 1. The Work to be done; Seetion 2. Heavy Shot at Low Ve-
loeities; Seetion 3. Small Shot at High Velocities; Seetion 4. The two Sys
tems Combiued; Seetion 5. Breaching Masonry. Charter III.—The Strains
and Structureof Guns: Seetion 1. Kesistanee to Elastic Pressure; Seetion 2.
The Effects of Vibration; Seetion 3. The Effects of Heat. Charter IV.—
Cannon Metals and Processesof Fabrieation: Seetion 1. Elasticity and Ductil-
ity; Seetion 2. Cast-Iron; Seetion 3. Wrought Iron; Seetion 4. Steel; Sec-
tion 5. Bronze; Seetion 6. Other Alloys. Charter V.—Rifling and Projec
tiles ; Standard Forms and Practice Described; Early Experiments; The
Centring System; The Compressing System; The Expansion System; Armor
Tunehing Projoctiles; Shells for Molten Metal; Competitive Trial of Rifled
Guns, 1802; Duty of Rifled Guns: General Ilses, Accuraoy, Range,Veloeity,
Strain, Liability of Projectile to Injury; Firing Spherical Shot from Rifled
Guns; Material for Armor-Punching Projectiles; Shape of Armor-Punching
Projectiles; Capaeity and Destructiveness of Shells; Elongated Shot from
Smooth Bores; Conclusions; Velocity of Projectiles (Tableh Charter "VT.—
Breech-Loading Advantages and Defects of the System; Rapid Firing and
Cooling Guns by Machinery; Standard Breech-Loaders Described. Part Sec-
ond: Experiments against Armor; Account of Experiments from Official
Records in Chronological Order. Appendix.—Report on the Application of
Gun-Cotton to Warlike Purposes—British Association, 1863; Manufacture and
Experiments in England; Guns Hooped with Initial Tension—History; How
Guns Burst, by Wiard, Lyman's Accelerating Gun; Endurance of Parrott
and Whitworth Guns at Charleston ; Hooping old United States Cast-Iron
Guns; Endurance and Aceuracy of the Armstrong 600-pounder; Competitive
Trials with 7-inch Guns.
