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Offline subdjoe

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Found some more light reading material
« on: December 10, 2010, 09:27:08 AM »
Treatise on the construction and manufacture of ordnance in the British service


Prepared in the Royal Gun Factory


Printed by the Secretary of State for War, April, 1877.


Enjoy.

Your ob't & etc,
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Re: Found some more light reading material
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2010, 12:20:34 PM »
Very interesting.   I found the data and math for black powder very useful.
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Re: Found some more light reading material
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 12:31:07 PM »
Very interesting snapshot in time of their understanding of steel.

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Re: Found some more light reading material
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 03:51:05 PM »
Quite interesting!
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