ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Reading edition
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Diagram illustrating Distortion of Frames under Load 52
Diagram representing a Ship with Trussed Frames 53
Typical Sections of “Symondite” and contemporary Ships 59
Turkish Bronze Cannon 68
French Twenty-four Pounder, with Spherical Chamber 84
Savery’s Engine 101
Newcomen’s Engine 104
Connecting-rod 111
A Carronade 133
A Truck Gun 147
Method of Gun-Exercise in H.M.S. Shannon 155
A Paixhans Gun 173
Bullet Mould 187
Rifleman Presenting 189
“Carabine à Tige” 195
Minié Bullet 195
Whitworth Rifle Bullet 198
Ship and Galley 211
The Charlotte Dundas 219
Pettit Smith’s Propeller 235