On the physical conditions involved in the construction of artillery
Subtitle: with an investigation of the relative and absolute values of the materials principally employed, and of some hitherto unexplained causes of the destruction of cannon in service.
By: By Robert Mallet.
Publisher: Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Ordnance -- Manufacture
Notes: "List ... of German literature, bearing ... [on the] subject": p. 278-283.
"Investigations ... first made public by a paper read before the Royal Irish academy, on the 25th of June, 1855, and since ordered by the council for printing in its Transactions ... The notes, with the exception of three of rour, were added as the text was being printed."--Pref.
Errata slip inserted.