An Elementary Treatise

INCLUDING A GRAPHICAL EXPOSITION
OF FIELD ARTILLERY FIRE

BY

JENNINGS C. WISE, B. S.

Captain and Adjutant First Battalion Field Artillery, Virginia Volunteers
(Formerly Second Lieutenant U. S. Army)

RICHMOND, VA.

B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY

1912

COPYRIGHT 1912

B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY

ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL

LONDON, ENGLAND

All rights reserved for all countries

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

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BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM WILSON SALE

Adjutant General, State of Virginia

I DEFINITIONS AND USE OF MATHEMATICAL TERMS

II COMMON FRACTIONS

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GEOMETRICAL MAGNITUDES

X MENSURATION

XI ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS AND SIMPLE EQUATIONS

PART II-GUNPOWDER AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES

I COMBUSTION, EXPLOSION, DETONATION

II EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES-GUNPOWDER

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V EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS-GUNCOTTON AND NITROGLYCERIN

VI GUNCOTTON POWDERS. DYNAMITE. DETONATORS

PART III-BALLISTICS

I BALLISTICS

II INTERIOR BALLISTICS

III EXTERIOR BALLISTICS

PART IV-SHRAPNEL

PART V-PRACTICAL GUNNERY

I FIRE AND FIRE DATA

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III RANGE AND RANGING

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