Memoir on Swords, EtcJ. Weale, 1860 - 90 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adapted analogous Architects Artillery Atlas bisected blade blade Fig blow bound in cloth bridges briquet bullet Cast-iron centimetres centre of gravity CHAPTER Charles Tomlinson Chepstow bridge cloth Ditto consequently curvature curved thrust CUTTING AND THRUSTING cutting edge cutting-edge cycloïd decimetre four inches decimetres sixteen inches DICTIONARY direction EATON HODGKINSON effect ENGLISH LANGUAGES fcap fluted back forces of impulse four decimetres sixteen French FRENCH LANGUAGES G. R. Burnell gilt GRAMMAR grip half-morocco hand heavy Henry Law hilt Illustrations iron John Hawkshaw latter length Light Cavalry Sword line of impulse Mameluke sabre marbled edges metal MILITARY momentum motion oblique pattern penetration percussive force PETER BARLOW plates power of cutting PRINCIPLES projectile pummel Railway rigidity roof scabbard Second-The shape side steel straight line straight sword straight thrust striking sword Fig sword-knot Tables THOMAS TREDGOLD timber tion Treatise Tulwar velocity vols weapon weight width woodcuts wound wrist yataghan yataghan-shaped
Popular passages
Page 2 - WORKSHOP COMPANION. Comprising a great variety of the most useful Rules and Formulae in Mechanical Science, with numerous Tables of Practical Data and Calculated Results for Facilitating Mechanical Operations. By WILLIAM TEMPLETON, Author of " The Engineer's Practical Assistant, "&c., &c. Eighteenth Edition, Revised, Modernised, and considerably Enlarged by WALTER S. HUTTON, CE, Author of "The Works' Manager's Handbook," " The Practical Engineer's Handbook,
Page 88 - THE CARPENTER'S NEW GUIDE. Or, Book of Lines for Carpenters ; comprising all the Elementary Principles essential for acquiring a knowledge of Carpentry. Founded on the late PETER NICHOLSON'S standard work. A New Edition, Revised by ARTHUR ASHPITEL, FSA Together with Practical Rules on Drawing, by GEORGE PYNE. With 74 Plates, 410, cloth £1 1 s.
Page 89 - Barlow on the Strength of Materials, enlarged. A TREATISE ON THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS, with Rules for application in Architecture, the Construction of Suspension Bridges, Railways, &c.
Page 3 - THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY : a Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Arches, Bridges, Roofs, Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, &c. To which is added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber, &c., with Descriptions of the Kinds of Wood used in Building ; also numerous Tables of the Scantlings of Timber for different purposes, the Specific Gravities of Materials, &c. By THOMAS TREDGOLD, CE...
Page 9 - THE COMBUSTION OF COAL AND THE PREVENTION OF SMOKE, Chemically and Practically Considered.
Page 3 - THEORY OF COMPOUND INTEREST AND ANNUITIES ; with Tables of Logarithms for the more Difficult Computations of Interest, Discount, Annuities, &c., in all their Applications and Uses for Mercantile and State Purposes. By FEDOR THOMAN, of the Socie'te' Cre'dit Mobilier, Paris. Third Edition, carefully revised and corrected . . . 4,0* " A very powerful work, and the author has a very remarkable command of his subject.