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Holley's Ordnance and Armor. 



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



A TREATISE ON ORDNANCE AND ARMOR— Embracing 

 Descriptions, Discussions, and Professional Opinions concerning 

 the Matekial, Eabeicaiion, Requirements, Capabilities, and En- 

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

 and Iron-clad "Warfare, and their Riflino, Peojectiles, and 

 BEEECn-LoADiNG ; also, Results of Experiments against Armor, 

 from Official Records, with an Appendix referring to Gun-Cotton, 

 Hooped Guns, etc., etc. By Alexander L. HoLLEr, B. P. 948 

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



Contents. 



Chapter I. — Standard G-uns and their Fabrication Described: Section 1. 

 Hooped Gruns ; Section 3. Solid 'Wrought Iron Gruna ; 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. Chapteu 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.— 

 Camion Metals and Processes of Fabrication : Section 1. Elasticity and DuctiU 

 ity; Section 2. Cast-Iron; Section 3. VCrought 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, 1803 ; 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 Destrnctiveness of Shells; Elongated Shot from 

 Smooth Bores; Conclusions; Velocity of Projectiles (Table". Chapter VI. — 

 Breeoh-Loading Advantages and Defects of the System; Rapid Firing and 

 Cooling Gruns by Machinery; Standard Breeeh-Loaders Described. Part Sec- 

 ond: Experiments against Armor; Account of Experiments from OfBcial 

 Records in Chronological Order. Appendix. — Report on the Application of 

 Gun-Cotton to Warlike Purposes — British Association, 1863; Manufacture and 

 Experiments in England ; Guns Hooped with Initial Tension — History; Ho-w 

 Guns Burst, by Wiard, Lyman's Accelerating Gun; Endurance of Parrott 

 and Whitworth Gtuns at Charleston ; Hooping old United States Cast-Iron 

 Guns ; Endurance and Accuracy of the Armstrong 600-pound«r; CompetitlTe 



