Rifled Ordnance: A Practical Treatise on the Application of the Principles of the Rifle to Guns and Mortars of Every Calibre; To Which Is Added a New . Before the Royal Society, 16th December,

Excerpt from Rifled Ordnance: A Practical Treatise on the Application of the Principles of the Rifle to Guns and Mortars of Every Calibre; To Which Is Added a New Theory of the Initial Action and Force of Fired Gunpowder (Read Before the Royal Society, 16th December, 1858)

The expanding projectiles represented in the Plates of the last edition, were - as there stated - merely experimental, and described for the purpose of illustrating certain principles, rather than with the View of recommending the projectiles for practical adoption. It has always appeared to me that the employment of any system which entailed the use of lead coated projectiles could only be advocated in the absence of a better, or, until a more satisfactory system could be worked out though I confess that, at the time this work was written, I saw no way to the solution of the problem. Since then, however, I have succeeded in perfecting a system which, I believe, will be found to meet all the requirements of our Service, without necessitating the use of lead-coated projectiles. This system, being actually under the consideration of the War Authorities, I have not judged it expedient to publish, until it has been thoroughly tested. I may state, however.

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