Abstract
IT is generally understood that progress made in the construction of guns, gun-mountings, explosives, and projectiles during the last half-century far exceeds that made in the preceding five hundred years; but the causes of this great advance, and the methods by which it has been accomplished, are not so well known. In this small book, of little more than fifty pages, the author has summarised the facts in a clear and interesting style, in a fashion perfectly intelligible to ordinary readers. The descriptions of ordnance are assisted by means of a series of excellent illustrations representing ancient weapons as well as the most recent types.
The Engineering of Ordnance.
By Sir A. Trevor Dawson. The Gustave Canet Lecture, delivered at the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Establishment of the Junior. Institution of Engineers, at the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, June 30, 1909. Pp. iv + 53. (London: Percival Marshall and Co., 1909.) Price 2s. 6d.
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W., W. The Engineering of Ordnance . Nature 82, 213–214 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082213a0
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