 | Sir Andrew Noble - 1906 - 734 páginas
...weapons. With the exception of a few small brass guns, the guns were mere blocks of cast iron, the sole machining to which they were subjected consisting...due to the rapidity with which they could be worked. The great object of every English commander was, if it were possible, to bring his ship alongside that... | |
 | Sir Andrew Noble - 1906 - 728 páginas
...weapons. With the exception of a few small brass guns, the guns were mere blocks of cast iron, the sole machining to which they were subjected consisting...due to the rapidity with which they could be worked. The great object of every English commander was, if it were possible, to bring his ship alongside that... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1911 - 520 páginas
...Wellington were merely blocks of cast iron, and the machining to which they were subjected consisted only in the formation of the bore and the drilling of the vent. The carriages on which they were mounted were equally rude ; they were made entirely of wood, generally... | |
 | 1911 - 650 páginas
...Wellington were merely blocks of cast iron, and the machining to which they were subjected consisted only in the formation of the bore and the drilling of the vent. The carriages * Paper read at the Jubilee Meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects, July 5. 1811.... | |
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... nearly 900 men. When we look at the wonderful mechanism connected with the armaments of the fighting-ships of the present day, it is difficult to conceive how such feats were accomplished with such rude weapons. With the exception of a few small brass... 