 ... at any required part of the circle. The fuze, thus ignited, burns in both directions, but only takes effect at one extremity, where it communicates with a small magazine of powder in the centre. The fuze is surrounded by a scale-paper, graduated to...  Elementary Lectures on Artillery ... - Page 66by Charles Henry Owen, T. L. Dames - 1861 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1860 - 742 pages
...trial, it was only necessary to turn the igniting aperture of the cover, to the point on the fuze scale, corresponding with the degrees and minutes of elevation on the tangent scale. This fuze had the advantage of being capable of adjustment and re-adjustment any number of times, before... | |
 | Sir Howard Douglas - 1860 - 698 pages
...communicates with a small magazine of powder in the centre. The fuze is surrounded by a scale-paper, graduated to accord with the elevation of the gun,...corresponding with the degrees and minutes of elevation on the tangent-scale. This fuze has the advantage of being capable of adjustment and re-adjustment any number... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - 1861 - 674 pages
...communicates with a small magazine of powder in the centre. The fuze is surrounded by a scale-paper, graduated to accord with the elevation of the gun,...corresponding with the degrees and minutes of elevation on the tangent-scale. This fuze has the advantage of being capable of adjustment and readjustment any number... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 pages
...communicates with a small magazine of powder in the centre. The fuze is surrounded by a scale-paper, graduated to accord with the elevation of the gun,...igniting aperture of the cover to the point on the fuze scale corresponding with the degrees and minutes of elevation on the tangent scale. The concussion... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 528 pages
...trial, it is only necessary to turn the igniting aperture of the cover to the point on the fuze scale corresponding with the degrees and minutes of elevation on the tangent scale. The concussion fuze (Jig. 4.) is on nearly the same principle. " A Fig. 4.—Concussion Fuze, full... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1860 - 764 pages
...with the elevation of the gun, so that when the range of a distant object was found by trial, it was only necessary to turn the igniting aperture of the cover, to the point on the fuze scale, corresponding with the degrees and minutes of elevation on the tangent scale. This fuze... | |
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