Abstract
ROBINS, in the last century, revolutionized the science of artillery by his invention of the ballistic pendulum; and in our own times Mr. Bashforth has accomplished the same thing for modern rifled artillery, by the aid of electricity and by his own chronograph.
A Revised Account of the Experiments made with the Bashforth Chronograph, to find the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles, &c.
By Francis Bashforth, late Professor of Applied Mathematics to the Advanced Class of R.A. Officers, Woolwich, and formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Cambridge: University Press, 1890.)
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GREENHILL, A. Theoretical Ballistics. Nature 42, 409–412 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042409a0
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