Twist and Stub Damascus Barrels

„ 234 „ 4. — Charcoal Iron and “Threepenny” Iron Barrels „ 241 „ 5. — “Twopenny” Iron and “Sham Damn” Iron Barrels „ 240

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Cannon of 1390	6
Iron ship gun of 1540	10
Paixhan gun and traversing bed	64
Carronade	67
New plan of casting a hollow axle	95
Mallet’s monster mortar	100
Russian 56-pounder	114
Eight-inch British gun	114
Sixty-eight pound carronade	116
Monck’s 56-pounder	117
Ten-inch or 86-pounder	117
Thirteen-inch sea service mortar	119
Thirteen-inch land service mortar	119
Welding steel	155
Wire twist and Damascus iron	160
Steel and iron twist	173
Spirals of Damascus, &c.	187
Spirals of charcoal and skelp	188
Spirals of Wednesbury and “sham damn” iron	189
Barrel welding	191
Method of plating barrels	195
Boring barrels	198
Sections of conical breeches, double barrel	209
London and Birmingham proof marks	251
Mode of proving guns	254
Sections of nipples	283
Expansive plug bullet	343
Enfield barrel and bullet	377