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Holley's Ordnance and Armor. 



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



A TEEATISE ON OKDNANCE AND ARM OB 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-Cotton, 

 Hooped Guns, etc., etc. By ALEXANDER L. HOLLET, 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 "Wrought Iron Guns ; Section 3. Solid Steel 

 Guns; Section 4. Cast-Iron Guns. CHAPTER 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. CHAPTER IV. 

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

 ity; Section 2. Cast-Iron; Section 3. "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, 1862; 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 1 

 Projectiles; Capacity and Destructiveness of Shells; Elongated Shot from 

 Smooth Bores; Conclusions; Velocity of Projectiles (Table 1 . 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 "Warlike Purposes British Associatiou, 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 Accuracy of the Armstrong 600-pounder; Competitive 

 Trials with 7-inch Guns. 



