The Gun

1. Introduction

2. Gunpowder

3. The First Guns

Early iron guns
Cast iron guns
Gunmakers think big
Mortars and howitzers
Standardisation of ordnance

4. Early Carriages

Two-wheeled
Double-plate and Block-trail
Limber

5. Mechanisation

IC takes over
Self-propelled guns for anti-aircraft
Towed AA equipments
SP field and medium guns
Towed field artillery
FA tractor and the Quad
Horses! Conversion completed
Recent developments

6. Gunfounding

Making the model
The Mould
Ornamentation
Gunfounders think big
Machining operations
Proof

7. The Smooth-bore Era 1550-1860

Types and gun design
Sights and laying
- elevation
- tangent sight
Ballistics and Gunnery
Projectiles
Fuzes
Firing the gun

8. Rifled Ordnance

Whitworth gun
Armstrong gun
Reversion to muzzle-loaders
Improvisation
Palliser's conversion
New heavy RML equipments
Heavy Field and Siege Artillery
Howitzers
Field Artillery
Mountain (Pack) Artillery
- The Screw Gun
RML Projectiles
RML Cartridges
Breech Mechanisms
Obturation