Excerpt from A Treatise on Ordnance and Naval Gunnery: Compiled and Arranged as a Text Book for the U. S. Naval Academy Ordnance Manual of the U. Army. Ordnance Instructions of the (z S. Navy. Aide-memoire to Military Sciences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."