Text-Book of Gunnery

Abstract

TO realize the great alterations which have taken place in artillery in the last twenty years it will be necessary to compare the present work with the corresponding “Treatise on Artillery” of 1866, prepared for the use of the Practical Class, Royal Military Academy, in which there is no mention of rifled artillery, iron armour, or electro-ballistic apparatus, and the Practical Class were expected to go forth fully equipped to compete with any foreign enemy with the smooth-bore gun, the spherical projectile, the formulæ for penetration into earth, and such information on velocity and resistance as the ballistic pendulum could afford. If twenty years can make such alterations in the science of artillery, imagination attempts to penetrate the future and togather some information as to the view in which the present treatise of 1887 will then be held.

Text-book of Gunnery, 1887.

By Major G. Mackinlay (London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1887.)