Ebook: Handbook of artillery materiel

Sixth edition. London.: William Clowes and sons. 1899. – 187 p.This handbook of artillery materiel is the sixth edition of this work. Topics include general principles of gun construction, breech-loading ordnance, quick-firing guns, machine guns, explosives, projectiles, fuzes/tubes, field and siege carriages, mountings of heavy ordnance, transporting carriages and machines, tackles/cordage/skidding, sheers/derricks/stores for mounting and dismounting ordnance, and lastly, laying ordnance, range, and position finding.