10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOTPROOF»
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1
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Several years ago the late Sir Howard Douglas maintained the opinion that,
instead of trying to make vessels shotproof, it would be wiser to expend our
money in providing more powerful guns; and for some years past we have been
insisting ...
Charles W. Vincent, James Mason,
1874
2
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Several years ago the late Sir Howard Douglas maintained the opinion that,
instead of trying to make vessels shotproof, it would be wiser to expend our
money in providing more powerful guns; and for some years past we have been
insisting ...
3
The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1881, containing ...
Shotproof beat Salesman The Baron beat Lord Baglan Shotproof beat The Baron
re, I Twilight beat Cottage Girl Jeweller beat The Aotor. Twilight beat Jeweller. Mr
T. H. Thwaites's bk w b Twilisht (late Hannah), by Telegram or Vale Boyal— ...
4
The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General ...
From the outer edge of this side protection the shotproof casemate or main armor
proceeds, upward and inward, at an angle of one vertical to two horizontal, to a
height of 28 ft. from the bottom of the ship, and 5§ ft. from the fighting line, where ...
George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana,
1881
5
Subject-matter index of patents applied for and patents ...
Forts, Batteries, Gun-boats ; Modes op Attack ; Rendering Batteries and t Ships
Shotproof. Application of electricity and fixed or moveable 759 3rd April 1854
Pierre Alexis Francisse aerostation to military strategy and pyrotechny. Bobeeuf.
6
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important ...
and increase the strength of armor by plating more heavily at the water-line belt,
and again at the height of the battery, with a lower shotproof deck, as before, and
shot-proof passages leading from the lower protected space to that of the battery
...
7
Subject-matter Index of Specifications of Patents
Forts, Batteries, Gun-boats ; Modes of Attack ; Rendering Batteries and Ships
Shotproof. Application of electricity and fixed or moveable aerostation to military
strategy and pyrotechny. Mode of constructing and fitting gun-boats - Submarine
...
Great Britain. Patent Office,
1860
8
Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications : ...
To render a ship shotproof, longitudinal T-irons p, shown in Fig. 6, are combined
with planks a, and may be fixed by spikes or bolts to the plank and iron rib
described above. The heads of the T-irons may be placed outside, or H-irons
may be ...
9
Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy crisis in the ...
... of Fortifications was strongly opposed to the previous year's committee
advocating over£1million fora flotilla of lightdraught, steam powered, broadside
batteries protected by 4 in iron plates'in themanner assumedtobe shotproof '.They
would ...
10
The Illustrated London News
Each piece of the wall, plank and plate, has a round loophole, which can be
closed by the inmates with an iron flap, so as to enable them to to shelter
themselves against hostile bullets in this shotproof iron fort. The hut sketched by
our Artist is ...
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