The artillerist's manual, and compendium of infantry exercise |
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Σελίδα 53
... skid or transom placed across the last step of the carriage which has a thread in it for the elevating screw which supports one end of the stool bed . These carriages admit of a depression of 30 ° , but after every round , the piece ...
... skid or transom placed across the last step of the carriage which has a thread in it for the elevating screw which supports one end of the stool bed . These carriages admit of a depression of 30 ° , but after every round , the piece ...
Σελίδα 187
... skids the gun when necessary . 5 Has charge of a handspike , assists 3 at the lever and skidding , and raises the weight , when it is to be lashed . 7 Assists 3 at the lever , slings and unslings the gun , and lashes it to the pry pole ...
... skids the gun when necessary . 5 Has charge of a handspike , assists 3 at the lever and skidding , and raises the weight , when it is to be lashed . 7 Assists 3 at the lever , slings and unslings the gun , and lashes it to the pry pole ...
Σελίδα 189
... skids , the hind part must be raised 8 or 9 inches off the ground , and propped with quoins or skidding , & c . to allow the sling to be passed under . If the cart be required to raise the bed , it is run back over it , till the ...
... skids , the hind part must be raised 8 or 9 inches off the ground , and propped with quoins or skidding , & c . to allow the sling to be passed under . If the cart be required to raise the bed , it is run back over it , till the ...
Σελίδα 190
... skid. and Left , or near side . 2 Has charge of a drag rope , assists in hauling the perch up and down when the carriage is unlimbered and limbered up , bears the muzzle of the gun down when the breech is raised , puts the skid on the ...
... skid. and Left , or near side . 2 Has charge of a drag rope , assists in hauling the perch up and down when the carriage is unlimbered and limbered up , bears the muzzle of the gun down when the breech is raised , puts the skid on the ...
Σελίδα 191
... SKID PREPARE TO UN- PREPARE TO UNSLING THE GUN . AND LEVER . LOWER THE BREECH . LIMBER . OFF GUY ROPE TO THE FRONT . UNLIMBER . EASE OFF GENTLY . HOLD ON . OFF GUY ROPE TO THE REAR . UNSLING GUN AND CARRIAGE . LIMBER UP . HOLD ON ...
... SKID PREPARE TO UN- PREPARE TO UNSLING THE GUN . AND LEVER . LOWER THE BREECH . LIMBER . OFF GUY ROPE TO THE FRONT . UNLIMBER . EASE OFF GENTLY . HOLD ON . OFF GUY ROPE TO THE REAR . UNSLING GUN AND CARRIAGE . LIMBER UP . HOLD ON ...
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12 pounder Ammunition angles axletree breadth breech CARRONADES cartridges centre charge column of divisions column of half column of route column of sub-divisions composition decimals denominator devil carriage distance ditto ditto ditto double drag ropes echellon elevation embrazures feet long fire fixed flank form column FORM LINE FORM SQUARE forward fraction front fuzes gabions gun limber guy rope half batteries half turn handspikes HEAVE hook horses howitzer iron iron sand lashed Left take ground left wheel length lever linch-pin loaded Mealed powder mortar move multiply muzzle non-commissioned officer Ordnance parapet Partition pickets piece placed plank platform portfires QUICK MARCH ravelins rear reverse RIGHT OR LEFT Right take ground rocket round shot Saltpetre shaft shells shoulders side skids SLING THE GUN slope slow match specific gravity Spunges Sulphur superior slope tackle terreplein traverses trunnion velocity Waggon body weight windlass WORDS OF COMMAND yards
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Σελίδα 244 - ... from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Σελίδα 242 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Σελίδα 242 - To reduce fractions of different denominators to equivalent fractions, having...
Σελίδα 294 - From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side severally. Multiply...
Σελίδα 257 - ... that there may be a balance between the power and the weight, the intensity of the power must exceed the intensity of the weight just as much as the distance of the weight from the prop exceeds the distance of the power.
Σελίδα 253 - ... of the upper deck to the ceiling at the limber strake. In the case of a break in the upper deck, the depths are to be measured from a line stretched in a continuation of the deck. Breadths. Divide each of...
Σελίδα 297 - A cylinder is a solid figure described by the revolution of a right angled parallelogram about one of its sides, which remains fixed. XXII. The axis of a cylinder is the fixed straight line about which the parallelogram revolves.
Σελίδα 245 - Multiply each term in the multiplicand, beginning at the lowest, by the feet in the multiplier, and set the result of each straight under its corresponding term, observing to carry 1 for every 12, from the inches to the feet.
Σελίδα 248 - Find the greatest square in the first period on the left hand, and set its root on the right hand of the given number, after the manner of a quotient figure in Division. Subtract the square thus found from the said period, and to the remainder annex the two figures of the next following period for a dividend. Double the root above mentioned for a divisor, and find how often it is contained in the said dividend, exclusive of its right-hand figure ; and set that quotient figure both in the quotient...
Σελίδα 248 - Distinguish the given number into periods of two figures each, by putting a point over the place of units, another over the place of hundreds, and so on over every second figure, both to the left hand in integers, and to the right hand in decimals, which points will show the number of figures the root will consist of.