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THE preface to this the second edition explains that the text was originally prepared for the cadets of the U. S. Military Academy. The title does no indicate the contents. The elastic stresses in wire-wrapped guns are the subject only of chap, i., pp. 1-3.6. Chaps ii. and iii., pp., 37-105, deal with the forces which the firing of the gun occasions in the principal parts of the carriage, the 3-in. field carriage, the 5-in. barbette carriage, and the 6-in. disappearing carriage being taken as examples. The problems are dealt with in these two chapters as problems in ordinary statics and dynamics. Chap, iv., pp. 106-73, treats of the elastic stresses in parts of gun-carriages. Chap, v., pp. 174-227, if. not very obviously connected with the professed subject of the book, gives a clear descriptive account of “toothed gearing.” The subject of the last chapter, vi., counter recoil springs, has more connection with guns than might appear at first sight.
Stresses in Wire-wrapped, Guns and in Guncarriages.
By Lt.-Col. Colden L'H. Ruggles. Pp. xi + 259. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1916.) Price 13s. 6d. net.
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Stresses in Wire-wrapped, Guns and in Guncarriages . Nature 100, 221–222 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100221b0
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