Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare: Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare ; Also a Detailed Description of All Matters Appertaining Thereto, Including the Latest Improvements |
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Page 205 - ... leaden vessel with wooden spatulas. Dynamite has a brown color, and resembles in appearance moist brown sugar. It usually contains from sixty to seventyfive per cent of nitro-glycerine. In this country, dynamite is made and sold under the name of giant powder. The explosive properties of dynamite are those of the nitroglycerine contained in it, as the absorbent is an inert body. It freezes at the same temperature as its nitro-glycerine to a white mass. If solidly frozen, it cannot be fired ;...
Page 233 - It consists of two hundred instruments, connected together in regular order, each composed of ten double plates arranged in cells of porcelain, and containing in each plate thirty-two square inches; so that the whole number of double plates is 2,000, and the whole surface 128,000 square inches. This battery, when the cells were filled with...
Page 270 - In & words, this means that the strength of the current is directly proportional to the electro-motive force of the battery, and inversely proportional to the resistance of the circuit. This sums up the general statement that C will be greater or less as E is greater or less, but will be less when R is greater and greater when R is less.
Page 203 - FORMATION. NITRO-GLYCERINE is formed by the action of nitric acid upon glycerine at a low temperature. The process of manufacture consists essentially in the slow mixing of the glycerine with the acid, a low temperature being preserved during the whole operation, and in separating and washing the nitro-glycerine from the excess of acid with water. Materials. The glycerine is the commercial article of good...
Page 270 - As resistance is directly proportional to the length, and inversely proportional to the area of the cross-section, the required resistance is R = 18.7 X ||||-X |= 10.5 ohms (approx.) Ans.
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Page 2 - ... the effects it had produced, the noble earl, in the strong language of his profession, rather than in a style comporting with his new dignity, exclaimed against Mr. Pitt for encouraging a mode of warfare which, he said, with great reason, they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would wrest the trident from those who then claimed to bear it as the sceptre of supremacy on the ocean.
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