The Gun by WL Ruffell Index

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Introduction
Gunpowder
The First Guns
Carriages
Gunfounding
The Smooth-bore Era 1550-1860
- Introduction
- Types
- Gun design and ornamentation
- Propellant charge
- Cartridges
- Length and weight of guns
- Windage
- Trunnions
- Elevating gear
- Sights and laying
- Projectiles
- Fuzes
- Firing the gun
Rifled Ordnance
- Rifled Ordnance Arrives
- Manton misses out
- Queen of the battlefield
- Baker and Norton
- Greener and Miniée
- Inventors come forward
- Whitworth
- Select committee decides on Armstrong's over Whitworth's
- Whitworth gun
  - Ordnance
  - Projectiles
- Armstrong gun
- Reversion to muzzle-loaders
- Improvisation
- Palliser's conversion
  - Carriages and platforms
- New heavy RML equipments