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Read Ebook: Field artillery materiel by Kelly James P James Patrick Compiler
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 1329 lines and 106382 words, and 27 pagesPage Guns--wire wrapped and built-up; twist; breechblocks; carriages; traversing mechanisms; elevating mechanisms; recoil systems. Air and spring recuperators; shields; sights; wheels; trails. Discussions of types of artillery and their organization; missions and guns suitable to accomplish different missions; ideal and practical types for divisional corps and army artillery. Weights and dimensions. 62 Description of gun, carriage, caisson and limbers; functioning of principal parts. Mounting and dismounting. Weights and dimensions. Description and functioning of principal parts. Care, preservation, dismounting. Weights and dimensions. Description and functioning of principal parts. Care, preservation, dismounting, mounting. Weights and dimensions. Description and functioning of principal parts. Weights and dimensions. Description and functioning of principal parts. Weights and dimensions. Description and functioning of principal parts. Weights and dimensions. Description and functioning of principal parts. Notes on dismounting and mounting--cleaning. Explosives--classes, fillers, H. E., nitrogen compounds. Ammunition--classes, discussion of fixed, semi-fixed and separate ammunition, primers, charges, construction of different types of shell, care. Fuzes--principle of operation, arming, classification, precautions, tables of fuzes giving description, use, etc. Ammunition marking. Oils and cleaning materials; tools and accessories; care and cleaning of different parts of carriages, emptying, cleaning and filling cylinders, cleaning bore, breech, springs, etc.; general instructions for care of cloth, leather and metal equipment. Cleaning schedules. Sights--line, front and rear, panoramic; model 1915 and 1917 with their use, care and verification. Range Quadrant, care, use and adjustment. B. C. Telescope, model 1915 and Aiming Circle model 1916, with their use, care and adjustment. Range Finder, 1 meter base, use, care and adjustment. Field Glasses. Fuse Setters. Telephones and Monocord Switchboards--description, use, adjustments, trouble shooting and care. Projectors--description, use, adjustment, service code for lamps and buzzer, conventional signals. Pyrotechnical signaling, classification of rockets, use, code. Panels--liaison with airplanes, signals, description of panels, panel code. Flags--classification, use of semaphore and wig-wag. Radio--Description of equipment, SCR-54 and SCR-54-A Sets, methods of operation, use of vacuum detectors, precautions, sources of trouble, maintenance, reception of airplane signals. Pistol, machine gun and automatic rifle--description, use and care. Reconnaissance car, Dodge, Harley-Davidson motorcycles. 5-ton tractors, ammunition trucks, cargo trucks. How to drive, sources of trouble, maintenance. Appendices. 349 A. Gunner's Examinations--preparations, Cannoneers' "Don'ts," training gun crews. B. Tabular comparison of light guns used 370 in World War. C. Table of Equivalents. 371 Index. DEFINITIONS. In the study of any subject which is rather technical in nature, it is absolutely essential that the reader be familiar with the meaning of the words and phrases which must be used in the matter to be discussed. If the subject matter is to be understood there must be a common phraseology. The reader is therefore strongly urged to perfect his knowledge of the following short vocabulary before passing on to the matter which follows. Artillery of Position is that which is permanently mounted in fortifications. Mobile Artillery consists of two classes: first, artillery designed to accompany an army in the field; second, railway artillery which requires tracks for its transportation. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIEL. In taking up the study of materiel, the Field Artillery student should know something of the history and development of ordnance and the reasons for the various changes which have taken place from time to time. The sole use of a gun is to throw a projectile. The earliest projectile was a stone thrown by the hand and arm of man--either in an attack upon an enemy or upon a beast that was being hunted for food. Both of these uses of thrown projectiles persist to this day, and, during all time, from prehistoric days until the present, every man who has had a missile to throw has steadily sought for a longer range and a heavier projectile. In ancient times the man who could throw the heaviest stone the longest distance was the most powerfully armed. During the Biblical battle between David and Goliath, the arm of David was strengthened and lengthened by a leather sling of a very simple construction. Much practice had given the youthful shepherd muscular strength and direction, and his stronger arm and straighter aim gave him power to overcome his more heavily armed adversary. Projectile-throwing machines were developed after the fashion of a crossbow mounted upon a small wooden carriage which usually was a hollowed trough open on top and upon which a stone was laid. The thong of the crossbow was drawn by a powerful screw operated by man power, and the crossbow arrangement when released would throw a stone weighing many pounds quite a distance over the walls of a besieged city or from such wall into the camps or ranks of the besiegers. This again was an attempt by mechanical means to develop and strengthen and lengthen the stroke of the arm and the weight of the projectile. The Bible states that King Usia placed types of artillery on the walls of Jerusalem. The Romans used it in the Punic Wars. The Alexandrian technicians established scientific rules for the construction of early weapons. Athenaeus reports catapults having a range of 656 meters and that the gigantic siege tower at Rhodes successfully resisted stone projectiles weighing 176 pounds. References to explosives are to be found in works as old as Moses. Archimedes is said by Plutarch to have "cast huge stones from his machines with a great noise;" Caligua is said by Dion Cassius to have had machines which "imitated thunder and lightning and emitted stones;" and Marcus Graecus in the eighth century gives a receipt of one pound of sulphur, two of willow charcoal and six of saltpetre, for the discharge of what we should call a rocket. The use of Greek fire was understood as early as the sixth century, but powder was earliest used in China, perhaps a thousand years before Christ, and was introduced to European notice by the Saracens. Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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