Aide Memoire to The Military Sciences (1853-1862)

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Aide Memorie to The Military Sciences. Framed from contributions of officers of the different services, and edited by a committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers. London: John Weale, High Holborn

Vol.II Fortification to Palanque (1860); 631 pages, plus 122 plates of illustrations and many other illustrations Price 76.00 {Item No.20262} [Originally edited by a committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1847-1849, 2nd edition corrected, 1857-1860]

• Fortification: Part I: Field Fortification; 20 pages, 11 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20352} [Includes: Preliminary Observations, Field Fortifications, Part I - Section I, Section II, Section III - General principles, Section IV -Description of Field Works, Section V - Obstacles and auxilliaries of defense, Section VI -Time required to execute field-works, distribution of workmen, and number of men necessary for the defence, as applicable to Part I, Section VII - Trace, Profile, and Construction of field-works, Section VIII - Gates or barriers, draining and communications, Section IX. Conclusions. Part II - Temporary fortifications, Section I - Introduction, Section II - Breastworks, Section III - Defense of hedges, roads, &c, Part IV - Defense of walls, Part V- Stockade-work.] [This document references the following other articles in this book: Abattis, Barriers, Battery, Blockhouse, Chevaux De Frise, Dams, Defilade, Drain, Fascines, Fougasses, Fraises, Gabions, Palisades, Quarrying, Stockades, Trous-de-loup]
• Fortification: Part I: Works in front of Lisbon; 10 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20353} [Includes: Workmen, Superintendence, Mode of payment, Materials, Stores, &c. how obtained, Trace of several works, Interior and other defences, Situations of the works, Profiles, Platforms, Barriers, Abattis, Trous-de-loup, Artillery, Calculation of garrisons, Scarps, Roads and communications, Telegraphs, Intermediate works]
• Fortification: Part I: Field Fortresses, of Places du Moment; 2 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20354}
• Fortification: Part I: Detached Forts; 2 pages, 5 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20355}
• Fortification: Part II: Permanent Fortification; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20356} [Includes: Part I, Section I. Profile, Rampart, Scarp walls, Counterforts, Comparison of the different scarp walls, Covert way, Glacis, Construction of profile. Section II. Trace, Bastioned fronts, Counterscarp, Polygonal trace, Ravelin, Covert way, Tenaille, Communications, Bomb proof cover]
• Fortification: Part II: Coehorn's System; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20357} [Includes: Section I. Advantages claimed, Section II. Capabilities of resisting an attack]
• Fortification: Part II: Bastion System; 8 pages, 8 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20358} [Includes: Section I, Section II. Of the several means to add to the value of the bastion system, Section III. Advanced and detached works, Section IV. Batteries casemated A L'Haxo. Trace of Chasseloup, Section V. Conclusion. Section VI. Details of bastioned systems - Vauban, The modern]
• Fortification: Part II:Montalembert's System; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20359}
• Fortification: Part II:Carnot's System; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20360} [Includes: Section I - Introduction, Section II - Application of this principles to a special system of fortification, Section III - Remarks upon Carnot's systems]
• Fortification: Part II:German System; 14 pages, 3 Plates of illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20361}
• Fortification: Part II: Observations on the Nature of Fortresses, Irrespective of Systems; 3 pages, Price .50 {Item No.20362}
• Fortification: Part II:Appendix A, Report of Experiments carried on at Woolwich in 1822, against Carnot's Detached Revetment; 7 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20363} [Includes results tables with various types of artillery against the fortification]
• Note. This is entire section on 'Fortification' is available: 67 pages, 8 figures and 38 plates of illus. Price 16.00 {Item No.20364}
• Fougass; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20365} [Includes: Common Fougasses, Shell Fougasses, Stone Fougasses]
• Fraise; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20366} [Wooden stake berm obstacle]
• Furnace, Shot; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20367} [Plans for a wrought iron travelling shot furnace]
• Fuze for Mines; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20368} [For use with Military tunnel mining charges]
• Gabion; 5 pages, 9 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20369} [Includes: Introduction, On Iron Gabions, Comparison on Gabions (Wood and iron types), Stuffed Gabions, or sap Rollers]
• Galvanism; 18 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20370} [Includes: Introduction, Electric light, Explosion of powder by voltaic electricity, The electric telegraph, Electrotype and electro-plating, Electro-magnetic action, Induced currents, Magneto-electric action, Magneto-electric machines, Thermo-electricity, Animal electricity]
• Geognosy and Geology; 100 pages, 14 illus. and 14 plates of illus. Price 12.00 {Item No.20371} [Includes: Introduction (a outline of minerals and mineral bearing rocks, Phenomena of rocks, Stratification, Flexures and contortions of strata, Cleavage, Denudation and wear, Faults, Analogy of modern and ancient sea cliffs, sea beaches, glaciers, and iceburgs. Petrifaction--Organic remains, The meaning, order, and object of geological formations or systems, Tabular view of geological formations. General and practical remarks, Fossiliferous deposites. Earliest known, or cambrian. Silurian, Devonian, or old red sandstone, Carboniferous, Permian, or maganesian limestone, New red sandstone, or trian, Lias order, Oolite, or jura formation, Wealden formation, Cretaceous, Tertiary class or formationns, Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene formations, Quaternary or Post Pliocene, Recent or alluvial, Chemical deposites, Organic formations, Connection and effects of igneous, and specially of eruptive rocks, on the Earth's crust, Volcanic group, Practical applications of geological science, Theory of springs] [Or how to find minerals and water]
• Grenade; 5 pages, 2 Plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20372} [Includes: Introduction, Glass hand grenades, Method of loading and throwing grenades]
• Guard-House, Defensible; 5 pages, 11 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20373} [Some would call it a Blockhouse]
• Guerite; 2 pages, 1 Plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20374} [Also called Echauguette. Projecting stone or brick bastion sentry box of turret]
• Gun Cotton; 22 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.20375} [Includes: Introduction, Appendix A. Report of select committee held at Woolwich, 3rd September 1846, Properities of the explosive cotton, by C.F.Schonbein, Professor of chemistry, 29th August 1846, Directions for using Schonbein's patent gun cotton, applicable for blasting every description of rock and mineral. Appendix B. Results of comparative experiments made with Pyroxyle, with powder used for small arms and artillery, with powder as employed in mines and the extraction of stones by blasting. Translated from the report of the commission to examine into the properties and power of Pyroxyle as a projecting force. Remarks on the use of the comparative tables of composition of powder and Pyroxyle, Comparative experiments one to six, Appendix C. Additional remarks on the history, composition, and utiltity of gun cotton, Later observations, Conclusions]
• Gunner; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20376} [Includes Naval gunners]
• Gunnery; 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20377} [Includes: Introduction, The properties of matter to be considered in reference to gunnery, Movement of bodies, The parabolic theory, Laws and rules of gunnery deduced from experiment and practice] [See also 'Projectiles']
• Gunpowder; 28 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.20378} [Includes: Introduction, Purity of ingredients: Saltpetre, or Nitre, Old method, New method, Charcoal, Sulfur. Pulverizing the ingredients: Mixing the ingredients, Wet mixing, The incorporating mill, Incorporating the ingredients, Breaking down the mill cake, Pressing the meal by the hydraulic press, Method of loading the box, Granulating the press cake, Dusting large-grain powder, Dusting fine grain powder, Glazing fine grain powder, Storing or drying powder, Finishing dusting, The powder best adapted to the enfield rifle. Examination and proof of gunpowder: Proof of merchant's powder. Apparatus for determining the specific gravity of powder, Remarks on the proof of powder by the Eprouvettes, Experiments with the 1-pounder gun pendulum, On the size of grain for gunpowder, Damaged powder, Remarks on the most advantageous site for a gunpowder factory, and the general position and construction of buildings connected therewith. Observations on the manufacture of gunpowder on the continent: Production and purification of the ingredients, Pulverizing and mixing the ingredients, Pulverizing and mixing the ingredients, Incorporating process, Granulating, Stoving or drying. On the purchase and refraction of saltpetre. Analysis of gunpowder]
• Heat; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20379} [Includes: Communication of caloric: Radiation of caloric, Specific caloric, Fahrenheit of Reaumur, Fahrenheit to centigrade, Evaporation, Congelation and liquefaction, Distillation, Miscellaneous, Practical distribution of heat]
• Horse (Powers of the); 21 pages, 2 figures and 1 plate of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20380} [Includes: Introduction: Of the speed of the horse, of the draught of the horse, Other modes of employing horse-power, Generally. Qualitiy of the horse: Introduction, Age, Mode of supply, The stable, Stable, management of, Feeding, Remount horses - Stabling of, Watering of, Grooming of, Ventilation. Billeting horses on the line of march, Artillery horse]
• Horse, Medicine (Veterinary directions); 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.20381} [Includes: I. Cathartic mass, II. Febrifuge mass, III. Sedative mass, IV. Diuretic mass, V. Alternative mass, VI. Tonic mass, VII. Anti-Spasmodic draught, VIII. Vermifuge powder, IX. Anti purgation, X. Discutient power, XI. Astringent powder, XII. Ophthalmic powder, XIII. Blistering liquid, XIV. Turpentine liniment, XV. Turpentine ointment, XVI. Black oil. XVII. Hoof ointment.]
• Horse, Power; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20382} [The capabilities of a horse]
• Hurdle; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20383} [A strong wicker work in rectangular form used in fortification]
• Hut; 17 pages, 18 figures and 1 plate of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20384} [Includes: Introduction, Directions for erecting the soldiers' hut, Number and contents of packages, marked, w.e., in each hut, Huts of a more permanent character: Log hut, Pise huts, Rubble masonry, Roofing, A description of the uses of the thatcher's tools, The timbering and lathing necessary for a thatched roof, A description of the manner of executing a thatched roof, Other kinds of roofing. Site ]
• Hut, Bricks; 6 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20385} [On the manufacture and choice of bricks]
• Ice; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20386} [How ice affects warfare]
• Kyanizing and Burnettizing; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20387} [How to protect timber, rope and canvas against rot]
• Laboratory; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20388}
• Levelling; 21 pages, 9 figures and 2 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20389} [Includes: Introduction, On the use of common thermometers to determine heights, Memoranda on railway levelling]
• Lime; 6 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20390} [Its properties, uses and manufacture, includes Captain Scott's cement article]
• Loophole; 9 pages, 9 figures and 3 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20391} [Includes: General article, and Description of a revolving iron loophole invented by T.F.Haulon, Clerk of works, R.E.D., plus Notes on embrasures]
• Machicoulis; 3 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20392} [A type of overhead loophole used in fortifications since the middle ages]
• Magazine; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20393} [The construction of gunpowder magazines]
• Manoeuvers of Cavalry; 7 pages, 9 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20394} [Includes: Introduction and five examples of Regimental commands for the moment]
• Manoeuvers of Horse Artillery; 11 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20395} [Includes: Introduction, General principles for the movement of horse artillery: Preliminary observations, Formations of a troop, Formation of a troop for inspection, Officers, how posted. A troop, how told off. Wheeling, Marching in line, Paces, Commands, Movements, Markers, in forming line. Movement from a flank or flanks, Formation of line from columns, Breaking and forming, Necessary extent of a column of march, March in line, Increasing or diminishing the front of a column of march, Countermarch, Echelon, Chequered retreat of the line]
• Manoeuvers of Field Batteries; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20396} [Includes: Introduction, Parade and inspection, Posts and duties of officers and mounted non-commissioned officers at exercise, Inspection or review of a single battery, For a brigade of batteries]
• Mantlet; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20397} [Musket proof coverings for embrasures]
• Marine Artillery; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20398} [Royal marine artillery organization and services]
• Meteorology; 18 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20399} [Includes: General introduction, Horary and Diurnal oscillation of barometers, Variation of mean height with latitude, Barometer, Hygrometer, Wet and dry bulb hygrometer, Wing gauge, Rain gauge, Indications of change of weather]
• Mining, Military: Part I: Introduction; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20400}
• Mining, Military: Part II: Practical Operations; 16 pages, 18 figures and 1 plate of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20401} [Includes: Introduction, Tools required for mining, Wooden linings, Sinking shafts with frames, Driving galleries with mine frames, Inclined galleries, Great galleries, Branches, Mining with cases]
• Mining, Military: Part III: Charges of Mines; 6 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20402} [Includes: Introduction, Charges for two-lined charges, or common mines. Charges fir surcharged mines, or globes of compression, Tamping mines, Firing mines]
• Mining, Military: Part IV: Counter or Defensive Mines; 12 pages, 10 figures and 4 Plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20403} [Includes: Introduction, Description of the galleries, Magistral gallery, Envelope gallery, Galleries of communication, Listening galleries, Arrangements adopted at the junction of galleries to facilitate the communication and increase ventilation, Mines for the defense of the body of the place. ]
• Mining, Military: Part V: Attack and Defense of a System of Countermines; 11 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20404} [Includes: Section I. Operations of the besieger when he arrives in the vicinity of countermines - subterranean combats between the rival miners, Section II. Storming of the galleries - method of turning the retrenchments, Section III. Attack of defensive mines by globes of compression - calculation of the time required to reduce a system of mines by this means of attack. Section IV. Method of converting a gallery, of which the besieger may have obtained possession, into a trench - method founded on this principle for the attack of countermines. Section V. On the formation of Breaches by mines]
• Mining, Military: Appendix I: Observations upon mine frames for field service; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20405}
• Mining, Military: Appendix II: Record of various experiments made in Mining Operations; 3 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20406}
• Mining, Military: Appendix III: Memoir on the object of the breaching experiment carried on at Bapaume in 1847; and on the present state of the science of military mining; 13 pages, 7 figures and 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20407} [Includes: Mode of attacking the miner, and of arriving in the quickest time at the chamber. Positions of the chambers of the mines and their charge, Principles upon which the charges of the mines were determined in the demolition of the ramparts of Vienna; par le Chef de Battallion Constantine. Demolition of Ulm in 1806, under the direction of the commandant Breuille. At the periodical inspection at Montpellier, in 1833, M. le General Valaze. Comparative table of results, Conclusions, Formula for the charges of mines]
• Mining, Military: Appendix IV: On Ventilation; 3 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20408}
• Note. This entire section on 'Military Mining' is also available: 65 pages, 44 figures and 15 plates of illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.20409}or it is also available as part of our book on Tunnel Warfare Vol.2, in which it is included along with two other works on Military Mining.
• Mountain Artillery; 11 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20410}
• Mountain Barometer; 6 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20411} [Aneriod Barometer and the measurement of heights]
• Mule for Burden; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20412}
• Muskets and Musketry; 26 pages, 3 figures and 2 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20413} [Includes: Introduction, General course of instruction, Preliminary drill: Cleaning arms, Theoretical principles, Aiming drill, Position drill, Judging distance drill. Practice: Target practice, Firing singly, File firing, Volley firing, Skirmishing, Judging distance practice, Firing without using the back sight, Prizes for good shooting]
• Observatory, Astronomical: Part I; 14 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20414} [Includes: Introduction, Meridian instrument rooms: The transit, The mural meridian circle, The transit circle, The repeating circle, The equatorial, Portable observatories, Altitude and azimuth instrument, Repeating circle (table)] [References part III of this article]
• Observatory, Astronomical: Part II: On the proper manner of comparing chronometers and other time-keepers; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20415} [Includes: A.I. General rule, A.II. To compare a solar half seconds chronometer with a sidereal clock, by coincidence of beats A.III. To compare a pocket chronometer beating five times in two seconds, and going mean solar time nearly, with a sidereal clock, by coincidence of beats. I. To adjust a portable transit instrument, II. To determine the latitude by the transit, III. To determine the latitude with the altitude and azimuth instrument, IV. To determine the sidereal time in a place whose latitude is known, by observation with the altitude and azimuth instrument, V. To determine the latitude and the sidereal time in a place where neither of them is known, by observations with the altitude and azimuth instrument, VI. Observation of equal altitude not recommended for use, VII. General remarks on the rise of the sun instead of a star, in any of the preceding observations]
• Observatory, Astronomical: Part III: Observatory, Portable; 4 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20416} [Construction plans for a portable observatory]
• Observatory, Astronomical: Part IV: Description of the Principle Astronomical Instruments; 19 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20417} [Includes: I. Hadley's sextant: To examine the error arising from the imperfection of the dark glasses, To adjust the horizon glass, To examine if the index glass be perpendicular to the plane of the instrument, To adjust the line of collimation, To determine the index error, Note. 2. Troughton's reflecting circle: Directions for observing with Troughton's reflecting circle. 3. The Transit Instrument: To make the axis horizontal, To adjust the line of collimation in azimuth, To adjust the transit to the meridian, Example, Method of observing with the transit, Use of the portable transit. 4. The portable Altitude and azimuth instruments: Introduction, Adjustments: Adjustments of the vertical axis, Adjustment of the horizontal axis, Adjustment of the circle to its reading microscopes, Adjustment of collimation in azimuth, Adjustment of collimation to altitude, Use of the altitude and azimuth instrument. 5. The Reading Microscope: Adjustments of the reading microscope. 6. The Collimator: The use of the collimator with an altitude and azimuth instrument, Example]
• Note. This entire section on 'Observatory, Astronomical' is available: 44 pages, 6 figures and 14 plates of illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.20418}
• Observatory, Magnetical; 18 pages, 5 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20419} [Plans of magnetic observatories and use of instruments like the Declinometer and the Bilfilar Magnetometer]
• Observatory, Appendix: Memorandum on the Books to be kept at the Magnetic Observatories; 17 pages, 9 illus. of the forms Price 2.00 {Item No.20420} [Includes: 1. The Day Book, 2. A Term Day Book, 3. A Miscellaneous Register, 4. An Abstract Book, 5. A Book for Curves. Forms of the Books]
• Ordnance, British; 10 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20421} [A story history and description of the classification system of British Ordnance]
• Ordnance, Construction of: Part I: Casting of Brass Ordnance in Royal Gun Factories; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20422} [Includes: Introduction, Model, Mould boxes, The Mould, Moulding, Mould for dead-head, The furnace, The Metal ,Fuel]
• Ordnance, Construction of: Part II: Casting of Iron Ordnance; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20423} [Includes: Introduction, Ingredients of moulds, Milling, Model, Mould box, Moulding, Furnace, Casting pit, Fuel, Iron, Running the metal, Trunnion plates, Removing cast from the pit, Boring mill]
• Ordnance, Construction of: Part III: Description of the Machinery, etc. used in the manufacture of brass cannon at the royal arsenal at Woolwich, and the Indian foundry, etc.; 21 pages, 6 figures and 11 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20424}
• Note. This entire section on 'Ordnance' is available: 39 pages, 6 figures and 11 plates of illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.20425}
• Ordnance Department; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20426}
• Oven, Field; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20427} [Temporary baking ovens]
• Oven, Permanent; 1 page, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20428} [Barracks baking oven a Woolrich]
• Oven, Grant's; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20429} [Baking oven of field and barrack service]
• Pah; 2 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20430} [New Zealand Mori Hill Fort]
• Palanques; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20431} [A note on Turkish entrenchments used during the 1600's and after]