| Notes: First edition. One of 5000 copies. Former library copy - usual marks. Loss to spine head and to spine base, board edges rubbed. 1917 Hard Cover. x, 705 pp. 8vo. Chapters include: Properties, Manufacture, Care and Use of Explosives; Theory of Explosives; Measurements of Velocities and Pressures; Interior Ballistics; Metals Used in Ordnance Construction; Guns; Recoil and Recoil Brakes; Artillery; Exterior Ballistics; Projectiles; Primers and Fuses; Aiming Devices; Fire-Control Instruments; Small Arms and Hand Arms; Machine Guns. Fourteen tables follow text. |