A treatise on ordnance and armor
Subtitle: embracing descriptions, discussions, and professional opinions concerning the material, fabrication, requirements, capabilities, and endurance of European and American guns for naval, sea-coast, and iron-clad warfare, and their rifling, projectiles and breech-loading. Also, results of experiments against armor, from official records. With an appendix, referring to gun-cotton, hooped guns, etc., etc.
By: By Alexander L. Holley. With 493 illustrations
Publisher: D. Van Mostrand; Trübner & company
Published: 1865
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: Ordnance; Armor-plate