 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...the weights of powder and balls, when fired from the fame piece of ordnance, &c. fo by making fimilar experiments with a gun, varied in its length, by cutting off from it a certain part before each courfe of experiments, the effe£ts> and general rules for the different lengths of guns may be certainjy... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 404 pages
...three times its size in the present way, by discharging a long shot of 2 or 3 times the weight of its usual ball, or round shot; and thus a small ship might employ shot as heavy as those of the largest now used. Finally, as these experiments prove the regulations with, respect to the weight of powder and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1812 - 412 pages
...above experiments exhibit the regu-, lations with regard to the weight of powder and balls, when fired from the same piece of ordnance ; so, by making similar...by cutting off from it a certain part before each course of experiments, the effects and general rules for the different lengths of guns, may with certainty... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...regulations with regard to the weights of powder and balls when fired from tbe same piece of ordnance, 4ic. so by making similar experiments with a gun, varied...by cutting off from it a certain part before each course of experiments. the effects and general rules for the different U ngtl.s of gnus may be certainly... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...with regard to the weights oí powítt and 1 '.ill . when (ired from the same piece of ordnance, &c. so by making similar experiments with a gun, varied in its length by catting off from ui certain part before each course ef experiment", the effects and general iules for... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1822 - 680 pages
...three times its size in the present way^ by discharging a long shot of 2 or 3 times the weight of its usual ball, or round shot ; and thus a small ship...ordnance ; so, by making similar experiments with a guii varied in its length by cutting off from it a certain part, before each set of trials, the effects... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1843 - 678 pages
...times its size in the present way, by discharging a long shot of two or three times the weight of the usual ball or round shot ; and thus, a small ship...might employ shot as heavy as those of the largest now used." These were some of the conclusions drawn by Dr. Hutton from the first set of experiments made... | |
 | 1843 - 508 pages
...times its size in the present way, by discharging a long shot of two or three times the weight of the usual ball or round shot ; and thus, a small ship...might employ shot as heavy as those of the largest now used." These were some of the conclusions drawn by Dr. Hutton from the first set of experiments made... | |
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Finally, as these experiments prove the regulations with respect to the weight of powder and shot, when discharged from the same piece of ordnance ; so, by making similar experiments with a gun varied in its length by cutting off from it a certain part,... 