Treatise of Artillery. by Major Hector Straith (1858)

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Straith, Major Hector. Treatise of Fortification and Artillery (7th Edition). London: Wm.H.Allen & Co. (1858); 226 pages, 68 illus. Price 23.00 {Item No.4600} [The Artillery Treatise part of the book]

• Chapter I. Definitions: Matter, Motion, Velocity, uniform, variable, accelerated and retarded. Attraction of cohesion, of gravitation. Weight: a measure of mass, Density, Specific gravity, Inertia, Force, instantaneous, continuous, constant, variable. Moving free, Accelerating force, Motion under a constant force, Under several forces, Heat, Effects of heat, Expansion, Liquefaction, Vaporization, Latent heat, Specific heat, Alterations of temperature attending chemical combination, Friction and percussion sources of heat, Conduction, Radiation, Gas, Air, Weight of air, Pressure, Elasticity, The air gun, Relations of pressure, volume and temperature; 19 pages, 3 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20813}
• Chapter II. Resistance of the air to moving bodies, It arises from the joint action of several causes: 1st Motion imparted to its particles; 2nd, Condensation in front of an rarefication behind the moving body; 3rd, Friction. Experimental determination of the amount of the air’s resistance, The whirling machine, Experiments of Robins, Of Hutton, Practical inferences thence deduced, Ballistic pendulum, Employed to determine the air’s resistance, Table of the air’s resistance to a 2-inch ball, Terminal velocity, Determination of terminal velocity of a ball of any diameter, and of any specific gravity, Table of terminal velocity of iron shot; 11 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20814}
• Chapter III. Rotation of Projectiles. Definition of rotation, Action of a charge of powder on a accurately spherical shot of uniform density, On an eccentric ball, Producing oscillation of the shot in the bore and rotation after leaving it, Relative positions of centres of gravity and form influencing velocity and direction of rotation, Deflections of balls in which a motion of rotation is combined with a motion of translation in air, Deflections are toward that direction in which the anterior hemisphere is rotating, Deflections prevented by rotation about an axis coincident with the line of flight, Principles of the rifle, Robin’s experiments on these subjects; 15 pages, 3 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20815}
• Chapter IV. Penetrations of shot in various substances. Penetrations of shot in uniformly resisting substances, Formula for calculating penetration, Laws of penetration, Formula deduced from experiment employed by the French, Table of penetrations in oak, calculated by this formula, Co-efficients for reducing the penetrations in oak to those in other substances, Examples of actual penetrations in oak during experiments in America, In iron and oak at Portsmouth, Greener’s experiments on the perforation of iron plates by leaden balls; 11 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20816}
• Chapter V. Gunpowder. Chemical affinity, Laws of combination, Equilvalent numbers, Discovery of, Composition of, Theory of, Gunpowder, Constitution of nitre, Atomic constitution of gunpowder, Combustion of gunpowder, Quantity of liberated gas, Resulting pressure, Manufacture of gunpowder, Nitre, Its source, Artificial production, Purification, Simplified process, Sulphur, Its source, Purification, Carbon, Charcoal, Woods suitable for preparation of charcoal in Coleman’s cylinders, Quality, Grinding ingredients, Sifting, Mixing the charge, Milling, Breaking down, Pressing, Corning, Glazing, Drying, Cleansing, Barrelling, Testing, Mortar-proof, Carbine proof, Flashing, Absorption of moisture, Deterioration, Chemical tests for impurities, General remarks, Effects of heating a charge of gunpowder, Size of grain, Results of pressing and glazing, Rapidity of combusion, Ignition by percussion, Volume of liberated gas, Gun cotton, Discovery of, Preparation of, Report of, Select Committee on, Comparative strength of, Experiments with at Bapaume, Results of combustion, Gun paper; 34 pages, 12 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20817}
• Chapter VI. Ordnance. Action of the charge of powder in the bore of a gun, Necessary relations between the mass of the shot and the gun, Motion of a ball in the bore of a gun, Length of the bore, Table of lengths of gun and charges to produce maximum velocities, Disposition of the metal in a gun, External form, Position of trunnions, Preponderance, Windage, Chambers, Tangent scale, Metal suitable for the construction of guns, Cast iron, Bronze, Their comparative value, Wrought iron, Celebrated wrought-iron guns, Manufacture of guns, Casting, Turning, Boring, Bouching, Proving; 20 pages, 3 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No20818}
• Chapter VII. Description of Guns, Carriages, Draught. Names of the various parts of a gun, Shell guns, Howitzers, Carronades, Mortars, Gun carriages, Garrison carriages, Of wood, Of iron, Traversing platforms, Travelling carriages, Millar’s howitzer carriage, Field gun carriage, Limber, Mortar beds, Wheels, Conveyance of ammunition, Field batteries, Draught, Horses, Bullocks, Camels, Elephants, Proportion of artillery to other troops, Description and details of plates I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII.; 20 pages, 10 illus. plus 8 more plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20819} [Plate I-III. 8 inch iron howitzer, Plates IV-VI. 9 pounder brass gun, carriage and limber. Plates VII-VIII. 9 pounder ammunition wagon.]
• Chapter VIII. Manufacture and Use of Ammunition. Round shot, Manufacture, proof, Formulae for calculating the number in a pile, For finding the diameter from the weight, or the weight from the diameter, or iron or leaden shop, Use of solid shot, Red hot shot, Danger of bursting guns with, Martin’s shells, Double shotting, Hollow shot, Comparative value of solid and hollow shot, Shells, Description of, Manufacture of, Effects of, Necessity in the attack of mud forts, Shells on ship board, Effects of, Spherical case shot, Principles of, Use of, Boxer’s spherical case and diaphragm shells, Hand-grenades, Carcasses, Grape shot, Tier shot, Case or canister shot, Rockets, Irregularities caused by the stick, Hale’s rockets, Signal rockets, Fuses, The common fuse, Naval metal fuse, Boxer’s fuse, Priming tubes, Quill detonating tubes, Friction tubes; 26 pages, 12 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20820}
• Chapter IX. Management of Guns. Pointing and laying guns, Mortar firing, Ricochet fire, Enfilade fire, Vertical fire, Generally at 45 degree, Sometimes at other elevations, Breaching, Guns best fire for, Best method of making a breach, Rate of firing, Distance, Quantity of shot required, Field batteries, General remarks and directions for the management of field guns on service, On taking up positions, On judging of distance; 21 pages, 4 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20821}
• Chapter X. Rifles, Revolvers. Deflections of balls due to rotation, Objects of a rifle, General description of a rifle, Methods of loading, Action of a rifle, Derivation, Twist, Uniform, Gaining, Measure of Twist, Expanding bullets or pickets, Conditions of a good rifle, Of a good picket, Breech loading rifles, Difficulty of constructing, Enfield rifle, American rifle musket, Table of deviations of, Whitworth’s rifle, Comparative accuracy of Enfield and Whitworth’s rifles, Lancaster’s rifle guns and small arms, Jacob’s rifles, Rifle pickets, Rifle shells, Rifle practice, Revolvers, Colt’s revolver, Adam’s revolver; 29 pages, 21 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20822}[References Chapter III. in this book]
• Chapter XI. Artillery Tables; 17 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20823} [All 15 tables in this chapter listed below{Item No.20824-20838}]
• I. Table of Guns, Howitzers, Carronades, and Mortars; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20824} [Including: Long guns: Iron: 12 inch, 10 inch, 8 inch, 32 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder, 9 pounder, Brass: 6 pounder, 12 pounder medium, 9 pounder, 6 pounder light, 3 pounder Colonial, 1 pounder Colonial; Howitzers: Iron: 10 inch, 8 inch, Brass: 32 pounder Dundas, 24 pounder, 12 pounder; Carronades: 68 pounder, 42 pounder, 32 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder; Mortars: Iron: 13 inch, 10 iron, 8 inch. Brass: 5-1/2 inch, 4-2/5]
• II. Diameters of Shot and Shells; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20825} [Including: Gun: 12 inch, 10 inch, 8 inch, 32 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder, 9 pounder, 6 pounder, 3 pounder, 1 pounder. Howitzer: 10 inch, iron, 8 inch, iron, 32 pounder, brass (Dundas), 24 pounder, 12 pounder. Carronades: 68 pounder, 42 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder. Mortars: 13 inch, iron, 10 inch, 8 inch, 5-1/2 inch, 4-2/5 inch]
• III. Weight of Shells, Thickness of Metal, Bursting Powder, &c., for Mortars, Howitzers, Guns and Carroandes; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20826} [Including: Mortars and Howitzer: 13 inch, 10 inch, 8 inch, 5-1/2 inch, 4-2/5 inch, Hand Grenade (3 pound), Hand Grenade (1 pound), Shells for Guns: 12 inch, 10 inch, 8 inch, 32 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder. Shells for Carronades: 68 pounder, 42 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder]
• IV. Case or Canister Shot, Tier Shot; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20827}[Including: Iron Guns: 68 pounder, 42 pounder, 32 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder, 9 pounder, 6 pounder, 3 pounder. Field Guns: 12 pounder, 9 pounder, 6 pounder, 3 pounder. Carronades: 68 pounder, 42 pounder, 32 pounder, 24 pounder, 18 pounder, 12 pounder. Tier Shot – consisting of four Iron plates, and Pin nuts (Nine shot): 32 pounders, 24 pounders, 18 pounders, 12 pounders, 9 pounders, 6 pounders]
• V. Spherical Case Shot; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20828}[Including: For 8 inch howitzer or 68 pounder carronade, 24 pounder gun, 18 pounder gun, 12 pounder gun, 9 pounder gun, 6 pounder gun, 24 pounder howitzer, 12 pounder howitzer]
• VI. Dimensions of Howitzer and Mortar Chambers; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20829} [Including: Howitzers: 10 inch iron, 8 inch iron, 24 inch brass, 12 inch brass. Mortars: 13 inch iron, 10 inch iron, 8 inch iron, 5-1/2 inch iron, 4-2/5 inch iron]
• VII. Weight of Field Guns, Carriages, Limbers, Wagons, and Ammunition, British Royal Artillery; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20830} [Including: Carriage, Limber, Ammunition, and Wagon for: 12 pounder brass gun, 9 pounder brass gun, 6 pounder brass gun, 3 pounder light gun, 1 pounder Ammuzette gun, 24 pounder brass howitzer, 12 pounder brass howitzer]
• VIII. Equipment of field guns and howitzers, at Woolwick; 6 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20831}[Including: Ammunition of Field Guns and Howitzers, at Woolwick: 12 pounder brass guns. Detail of a 12 pounder battery, 9 pounder Field Gun, Detail of a 9 pounder battery. Light 6 pounder brass field gun, Detail of a 6 pounder battery, Light 6 pounder, stores carried (Including how packed). Light 6 pounder waggon (Including how packed). 24 pounder brass field howitzer (Ammunition). 12 pounder brass field howitzer (Ammunition)]
• IX. Weights of mortar beds, at Woolwich; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20833}
• X. Elevation, charge, and range of iron ordnance, deduced from actual experiment at Woolwich; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20833} [Including for: 12 inch gun (90 cwt), 10 inch gun (84 cwt), 8 inch gun (9 feet, 63 cwt), 32 pounder (56 cwt), 24 pounder (47, 2, 8), 18 pounder (42 cwt), 12 pounder (33 1/2 cwt), 9 pounder (28 cwt), 6 pounder (23 cwt), 68 pounder carronade (29 ctw), 42 pounder carronade (22 ctw), 24 pounder carronade (13 ctw), 18 pounder carronade (10 ctw), 12 pounder carronade (6 ctw), 10 iron howitzer (40 cwt), 8 inch iron howitzer (40 cwt)]
• XI. Range, charge, elevation of brass ordnance, deduced from actual experiment at Woolwich; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20834} [Including: Round shot for: Light 12 pounder, 6, and heavy 3. Medium 12, long 6, and 9 pounders. Common shells: 12 pounder howitzer and 24 pounder howitzer]
• XII. Ricochet practice with iron ordnance, deduced from actual experiment at Woolwich; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20835} [Including: Round shot for: 68 pounder carronade, 24 pounder gun (9 feet), 18 pounder gun (6 feet), 12 pounder (8-1/2 feet). Common shells: 10 inch howitzer, 8 inch howitzer]
• XIII. Ricochet practice with brass ordnance, compiled from approved experimental practice at Woolwich and Ahemdnuggur (Bombay), December 1838; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20836} [Including: 24 pounder howitzer (Gen.Millar‘s), 12 pounder howitzer (Gen.Millar‘s), 12 pounder medium gun, 9 pounder medium gun, 6 pounder brass field piece, 5-1/2 heavy howitzer]
• XIV. Mortar practice at 15 degree, 25 degree, and 45 degree elevation. Woolwich 1838. Strength of powder 21 degree to 22 degree 7-10ths.; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20837} [Including for: 13 inch iron mortar, 10 inch iron mortar, 5-1/2 inch brass mortar, 4-2/5 inch brass mortar]
• XV. Field Artillery. Table of Ranges, Elevations, and Length of Fuse for Horse and Foot Artillery, Light Field Batteries, compiled from the most approved Tables of Practice at Ahmednuggar, with Bombay Gunpowder, December 1838; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20838} [Including for: 24 pounder brass gun howitzer, 12 pounder brass gun howitzer, 9 pounder brass field piece, 6 pounder brass field piece]
• Index to Artillery; 6 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20839}

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