Textbook of Ordnance and Gunnery

McFarland, Earl

New York/London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1929. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, x, 625 pp, bw illustrations and diagrams. VG- (shelfwear to boards and corners, light age toning as expected with age, small black marker spots on block, previous owner name on ffep. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.). Item #178948

"References" at end of most of the chapters. Contents include: Propellants and High Explosives; The Theory of Explosives: Nitrogen for Explosives; Interior Ballistics; Proving Ground Instruments; Metals used in Ordnance Construction; Guns; Recoil and Recoil Braks; Artillery; Aiming Devices; Fire Control Instruments; Antiaircraft Aiming and Fire Control Devices; Exterior Ballistics; Firing Tables; Probability and Adjustment of Fire; Projectiles; Primers and Fuzes; Small Arms and Small Arms Ammunition; Machien Guns and Automatic Rifles; Motorized Material; Grenades; Chronological Outline of Ordnance Development; Tables, Appendix I; Appendix II; and Index.