 | Alexander Lyman Holley - 1865 - 1516 Seiten
...is impossible, because in cast guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal) the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of...that, in large guns, the inside is split, while the outxide is scarcely strained. This split rapidly increases, and the gun ultimately bursts. " This will... | |
 | Alexander Lyman Holley - 1865 - 994 Seiten
...is impossible, because in cast guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal) the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of...consequence is, that, in large guns, the inside is tplit, while the outside is scarcely strained. This split rapidly increases, and the gun ultimately... | |
 | 1865 - 388 Seiten
...restraining the explosive force of the powder tendmg to burst the gun, the stram not being (always) communicated to it by the intervening metal. The consequence...rapidly increases, and the gun ultimately bursts." Gen. Gilmore says explicitly: "It is not to a want of strength in the reinforce that the premature... | |
 | 1866 - 374 Seiten
...guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal,)" as Captain Blakely remarks, " the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of...powder tending to burst the gun, the strain not being (always) communicated to it by the intervening metal. The consequence is, that, in large guns, the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Ordnance - 1869 - 262 Seiten
...is impossible, because in cast guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal,) the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of the powder tending to burst the gun, the strain uot being communicated to it by the that intervening metal. The consequence is in large guns the inside... | |
 | 1865 - 372 Seiten
...guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal,)" as Captain Blakcly remarks, " the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of...powder tending to burst the gun, the strain not being (always) communicated to it by the intervening metal. The consequence is, that, in large guns, the... | |
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To obtain much greater strength by casting guns heavier is impossible, because in cast guns (whether of iron, brass, or other metal) the outside helps but very little in restraining the explosive force of the powder tending to burst the gun, the strain... 