Alexander Lyman Holley
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 966
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Excerpt from A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and Professional Opinions Concerning the Material, Fabrication, Requirements Capabilities, and Endurance of European American Guns for Naval Sea-Coast, and Ironclad Warfare In Europe, the improvement and fabrication of ordnance, and in America, the additional occupation of war, have so engrossed the attention of the profession, that the compila tion and publication of the results and the practice, have been almost necessarily neglected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.