A treatise on ordnance and armor: 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.
Holley, Alexander Lyman, 1832-1882