D. VAN NOtiTllAND. 33 



Holley s Ordnance and Armor. 



493 Engravings. Half Roan, $10.00. Half Russia, $12.00. 



A TEEATISE ON OBDNANCE AND AKMOR Embracing 

 Descriptions, Discussions, and Professional Opinions concerning 

 the MATERIAL, FABRICATION, Requirements, Capabilities, and En 

 durance of European and American Guns, for Naval, Sea Coast, 

 and Iron-clad Warfare, and their RIFLING, PROJECTILES, and 

 BREECH-LOADING; also, Results of Experiments against Armor, 

 from Official Records, with an Appendix referring to Gun-Co tton, 

 Hooped Guns, etc., etc. By ALEXANDER L. HOLLEY, B. P. 948 

 pages, 493 Engravings, and 147 Tables of Results, etc. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. Standard Guns and their Fabrication Described: Section 1. 

 Hooped Guns ; Section 2. Solid &quot;Wrought Iron Guns ; Section 3. Solid Steel 

 Guns; Section 4. Cast-Iron Guns. CH AFTER II. The Requirements of Guns, 

 Armor: Section 1. The Work to be done; Section 2. Heavy Shot at Low Ve 

 locities ; Section 3. Small Shot at High Velocities ; Section 4. The two Sys 

 tems Combined ; Section 5. Breaching Masonry. CHAPTER III. The Strains 

 and Structure of Guns: Section 1. Resistance to Elastic Pressure; Section 2. 

 The Effects of Vibration; Section 3. The Effects of Heat. On AFTER IV. 

 Cannon Metals and Processes of Fabrication: Section 1. Elasticity and Ductil 

 ity; Section 2. Cast-Iron; Section 3. &quot;Wrought Iron; Section 4. Steel; Sec 

 tion 5. Bronze ; Section 6. Other Alloys. CHAPTER V. Rifling and Projec 

 tiles ; Standard Forms and Practice Described ; Early Experiments ; The 

 Centring System; The Compressing System; The Expansion System; Armor 

 Punching Projectiles ; Shells for Molten Metal ; Competitive Trial of Rifled 

 Guns, 18G2 ; Duty of Rifled Guns: General Uses, Accuracy, Range, Velocity, 

 Strain, Liability of Projectile to Injury ; Firing Spherical Shot from Rifled 

 Guns; Material for Armor-Punching Projectiles; Shape of Armor-Punching 

 Projectiles; Capacity and Destructiveness of Shells; Elongated Shot from 

 Smooth Bores; Conclusions; Velocity of Projectiles i Table . CHAPTER VI. 

 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 &quot;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 &quot;Whitworth Guns at Charleston ; Hooping old United States Cast-Iron 

 Guns ; Endurance and Accuracy of the Armstrong 600-po under; Competitive 



