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A circumstantial and explanatory account of experiments ... the relative times of burning of fuzes driven by a machine opposed to those of the common description : with a correspondence carried on in the years 1817 & 1818 on this and other important branches of the science of artillery : to which is subjoined an appendix being an exposé of the present state of telegraphic communication in this country ...
- Title
- A circumstantial and explanatory account of experiments ... the relative times of burning of fuzes driven by a machine opposed to those of the common description : with a correspondence carried on in the years 1817 & 1818 on this and other important branches of the science of artillery : to which is subjoined an appendix being an exposé of the present state of telegraphic communication in this country ... / by John Macdonald.
- Author
- Macdonald, John, 1759-1831.
- Publication
- London : Printed for the author and sold by T. Egerton, 1819.
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- Description
- liv, 272 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "And containing also plates and descriptions of mortars, and of instruments made use in laying them; skewing the effects of their false construction ... inclusive of an improved dragrope-exercise, artillery manœuvres for future volunteer corps, with a new pike-exercise, and the rationale or principle of double quick-time."
- Errata sheet inserted.
- Includes tables.
- "A list of Colonel Macdonald's publications": p. [261]-265.
- Contents
- An account of experiments made at Woolwich in 1817 & 1818, proving the accuracy of an engine for driving fuzes ... -- An exposé of the present state of telegraphic communication in this country ...
- Call Number
- VWS (Macdonald. Circumstantial and explanatory account of experiments)
- OCLC
- 17613044
- Author
- Macdonald, John, 1759-1831.
- Title
- A circumstantial and explanatory account of experiments ... the relative times of burning of fuzes driven by a machine opposed to those of the common description : with a correspondence carried on in the years 1817 & 1818 on this and other important branches of the science of artillery : to which is subjoined an appendix being an exposé of the present state of telegraphic communication in this country ... / by John Macdonald.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for the author and sold by T. Egerton, 1819.
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