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The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in the development of smokeless powder, progress which has quite kept pace with the development of guns, which, in recent years, in the change from smooth bore to rifled cannon, has been marked. All the credit for the present advance can by no means be claimed for the last decade, for, at its beginning, great progress had been made, the beginning dating back many years. The discovery that the action of nitric acid on such substances as cotton and glycerine produced smokeless explosives many times stronger than black powder was the beginning, a desire to use these in small arms and cannon was the incentive for experiment, which finally resulted in the development of the present powders.
The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in the development of smokeless powder, progress which has quite kept pace with the development of guns, which, in recent years, in the change from smooth bore to rifled cannon, has been marked. All the credit for the present advance can by no means be claimed for the last decade, for, at its beginning, great progress had been made, the beginning dating back many years. The discovery that the action of nitric acid on such substances as cotton and glycerine produced smokeless explosives many times stronger than black powder was the beginning, a desire to use these in small arms and cannon was the incentive for experiment, which finally resulted in the development of the present powders.
Ammunition for Cannon
Ames, Thales L. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 54 ; 283-312
2021-01-01
301905-01-01 pages
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