 | 1814 - 556 σελίδες
...^ of the calibre, which is the usual size, no less than 3- or J of the powder escapes, and is lost. As the balls are often smaller than the regulated...half the powder is lost by unnecessary •windage. The conclusions which Dr Hutton has deduced concerning the resistance of the air, and the law which... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 424 σελίδες
...with the usual established windage only, viz, about ^ of the calibre, no less than between -j- and £ of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood,, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 404 σελίδες
...usual established windage only, viz, about -fs of the calibre, no less than between ^ and $ of >tlie powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls are...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1812 - 624 σελίδες
...the calibre, no less than between ^ and 1 of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls arc often smaller than the regulated size, it frequently...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 556 σελίδες
...with the usual established windage only, viz. about ^tk of the calibre, no less than between ^ and ^ of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. ' It appears too, that the resisting force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 σελίδες
...the usual established windage only, \iz. about -r^th of the calibre, no less than between 4- and ' of the powder escapes and is lost: and as the balls are often smaller than the reflated size, it t'rer quently happens that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. Tract... | |
 | 1813 - 662 σελίδες
...usual established windage only, namely, about -j-0th of the calibre, no less than between $• and J of the powder escapes and is lost. And as the balls are often smaller than that size, it frequently happens that \ the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. 4 8thly. It appears... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 604 σελίδες
...the usual established windage only, viz. about TJ- of the calibre, no less than between -f and •£ of the powder escapes and is lost: and as the balls...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage." The valuable work from which the above quotation is taken will tend more than any other which has yet... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1816 - 618 σελίδες
...the usual established windage only, viz. about <£% of the calibre, no less than between •£ and J of the powder escapes and is lost : and as the balls...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting 'force of wood, to balls fired into it, is not constant : and that... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1818 - 652 σελίδες
...established windage only, viz. about -fa of the calibre, no lese than betwen .} and | of the powder escape? and is lost : and as the balls are often smaller than...that half the powder is lost by unnecessary windage. It appears too that the resisting force of wood, to lia IN fired into it, is not constant : and tbat... | |
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... degrees of ramming, nor by firing the charge of powder in different parts of it. But that a very great difference in the velocity arises from a small degree in the windage : indeed with the usual established windage only, viz, about ^ of the calibre,... 
