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100 1 $aGreener, W. W.$q(William Wellington)
245 14 $aThe gun and its development /$cW.W. Greener.
250 $aNinth ed., rewritten, and with many additional illustrations.
260 $aGuilford, Conn. :$bThe Lyons Press,$c©2002.
300 $a804, xxvi pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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500 $aReprint. Originally published: 9th ed. London ; New York : Cassell, 1910.
500 $aOriginal advertisements (p. i-xxvi) at end.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a1: Early Arms -- Missile weapons of the ancients -- Stone throwing -- Origin of the sling-shot -- Sling -- Ancient bow -- Long-bows -- Flight and sheaf arrows -- Arbalists -- Cross-bows -- Bolts and quarrels -- Paviser -- Feats of archers -- Bow v Musket -- 2: Invention Of Gunpowder -- Thunder-bolts -- Eastern origin of the invention -- Wilkinson's theory -- Gunpowder and mahomedan invasion -- Early use in Europe -- Roger Bacon -- Berthold Schwartz -- When first made in England -- Medieval account of its origin -- 3: Early Artillery -- First fire-arms -- Valturius's war-chariot -- Chaucer's mention of gonne -- Barbour's instances -- Early cannon -- Field artillery -- Bombards -- Mons Meg -- Monster cannon -- Orgues des bombards -- Battering rams -- Classification of cannon -- Early mortars -- Breech-loading cannon -- Ship cannon -- Petards -- Miscellaneous early fire-arms -- 4: Early Hand Fire-Arms -- Cannon as hand-guns -- Petronel -- Hand-culverin -- Its construction -- Early gunners and cross-bowmen -- Culverins -- Method of shooting with hand-cannon -- Match-lock: its development -- First match-locks -- Serpentin -- Opposition to the use of fire-arms -- Harquebusiers -- Methods of using early guns -- Positions in shooting -- Shutting one eye -- Wheel-lock -- Monk's gun -- Mechanism of the German wheel-lock -- Flint-lock, snap-hammer or fire-lock -- Early sporting fire-arms -- German guns -- Italian arms -- Venetian rifle -- Early French arms -- Russian workmanship -- Early repeating arms -- Multi-barreled cannon --Three barreled wall-piece -- Repeating match-lock -- Early magazine fire-arms -- Italian magazine repeater -- Revolving guns -- Henry VIII's arquebus -- Double chambered revolving gun -- Russian rotating arms -- Three barreled revolver -- Double revolver gun -- Collier's carbine -- Combined fire arms -- Pistol battle axe -- Wheel lock dagger pistols -- Pistol pike -- Concealed arms -- Rob Roy's purse -- Pistol shields -- Whip pistols -- Curious and notable weapons -- Nock's seven barreled carbine -- German daggs -- Italian dagg -- Old Saxon pistols -- Dueling pistols -- Highland pistol -- Double pistols -- Double pistol with one trigger -- Early double barreled guns -- Early breech-loaders -- Flint lock breech loader -- Italian side motion mechanism -- Fergusson's mechanism -- Theiss rifle -- Hall's American breech loader -- Breech loading wall pieces -- 5: Percussion System -- Historical note on fulminates -- Forsyth's invention -- Detonators and the copper cap -- Manton's tube gun -- Westley Richards's detonating gun -- Detonators -- Col Hawker's opinion of flint locks and percussion ignition -- Percussion muzzle loader -- Nock's patent breech -- Greener's double muzzle loader -- Dangers of muzzle loaders -- Opinions on muzzle loading -- Jernigan on China and Chinese sportsmen -- Shooting of Whitworth's rifle -- Percussion breech loaders -- Demondion's gun -- Gilbert Smith's American rifle -- Norwegian carbine -- Abezz breech loader -- Calesher and Terry carbine -- Westley Richards capping breech loader -- Mousqueton des Cent Gardes -- Percussion muzzle loader and breech loader compared -- 6: Modern Shotguns -- History of the breech loading system -- Pin fire and the Lefaucheux breech mechanism -- Double grip -- Sliding barrel mechanism -- Dougall's lock fast gun -- Turn over mechanism -- Jeffries side motion mechanism -- Greener's self half cocking gun -- Needham's snap action -- Side lever mechanisms -- Central fire system -- Needham's needle guns -- Lancaster's system of ignition -- Daw's gun and cartridge -- Advantages of the central fire principle -- Top lever breech actions -- Locks and minor mechanisms -- Greener's patent striker -- Westley Richards's breech action -- Doll's head gun -- Treble grip mechanisms -- Greener cross bolt -- Greener's treble wedge fast gun -- Strength of breech mechanisms -- Breaking strain of powders in gun actions -- Duplex or improved wedge fast grip.
505 0 $a7: Hammerless Guns -- Historical note on the hammerless principle -- Semi hammerless gun -- Lang's self cocking gun -- Lefever American hammerless gun -- Hammerless guns cocked by the action lever -- Dreyses Daw's Green's Murcott's Allport's -- Hammerless guns cocked by the barrels -- Anson and Deeley's gun -- Necessity for a top connection on hammerless guns -- Principle involved -- Where the strain comes -- Abbey bolt -- Greener's Facile Princeps gun -- Barrel cocking mechanisms compared -- Hammerless guns cocked by the mainspring -- Purdey's Walker's Greener's -- Other methods; Scott's Hill's Rogers's -- Advantage of hammerless guns -- Choice of hammerless system -- 8: Ejector Guns -- Note on the principle of the ejector -- Divided extractor -- Needham's system -- Perkes's first fore end ejector -- Separate mechanisms for ejecting -- Deeley's, Trulock's, Baker's, Ross's, Malehams', Harrison's, Perkes's, Holland's, Southgates's, Grant's, Greener's self acting -- Third principle -- Greener's unique ejecting mechanism -- Ejecting mechanism compared -- Advantage of the ejector -- Safeties and safety bolts -- Good and faulty bents -- Trigger bolting safeties -- Butt safety bolt -- Intercepting safety bolts -- Greener's automatic locking -- 9: Gun-Making -- History of the fire arms industry -- Specimens of early work -- Gun making in bygone days -- Gun makers of the past -- Nicolas Bis, Bossi Jacquinet, Vittelli, Comminozo, Page of Norwich, Nock, Joe Manton, Ezekiel Baker, W Greener -- 10: Modern Methods Of Gun-Making -- Manufacture of iron for gun barrels -- Barrel welding -- Varieties of twist gun barrels -- Damascus and laminated steel -- Foreign twist barrels -- Varieties and qualities of forged barrels -- Weldless barrels -- Greys -- Greener's solid weldless twist barrel -- Steel barrels -- Whitworth's, Greener's -- Burst in wrought steel barrel -- Other metals used in gun manufacture -- Gun making processes; boring, straightening and grinding barrels -- Cartridge chamber -- Shooting; gun makers' ranges -- Testing the shooting -- Fine boring and choking -- Historical note on choke boring -- Roper's detachable choke -- J W Long on choke boring -- Author's first knowledge of choke boring -- Teasdale Buckle's opinion of the choke -- Various styles of old boring -- Cylinder barrel -- Varieties of the choke bore -- How the choke is formed -- Lapping or lead polishing -- Barrel filing -- Breech action making -- Lock making -- Pieces of the gun lock -- Gun stocks and gun stocking -- Greener's unbreakable stock -- Screwing and finishing -- Percussioning -- Polishing and case hardening -- Engraving and the ornamentation of guns -- True value of decoration -- Barrel browning -- Browning mixtures -- Black browns -- Miscellaneous mountings -- Use of machinery in gun making -- Machine made sporting guns -- 11: Proof Of Guns -- History of gun barrel proving -- Early charters of the London Gunmakers' company -- Birmingham proof house -- Rules and regulations and scales applicable to the proof of small arms -- Classification of arms -- Rule of proof -- Conditions precedent to proof -- Marks of proof -- Proof scales for rifled small arms breech loading shot guns, other varieties -- Supplementary proofs -- Proof scale for rifled choke bores -- Mode of proving -- Work of an English proof house -- Foreign proof houses -- Foreign proof marks -- 12: Tests And Test-Recording Instruments -- Classification of tests -- Crusher gauge -- Borland's dead weight gauge -- Borland's cap tester -- Chronographs -- Penetration tests; Pettitt pads, copper sheet and water tests, card rack and penetration tester -- Field force gauge -- Stonehenge's machine rest -- Field recoil registering machine rest -- Conversion of measurements -- Value of footpounds and tons pressure -- 13: Public Gun Trials -- Gun trials of 1858 and 1959 -- Muzzle loaders against breech loaders -- Statement by J H Walsh Stonehenge -- Value of Walsh's work -- Gun trial of 1866 -- Great gun trial of 1875 -- Choke bores against cylinders -- Victory of the chokes -- W W Greener winner of the field cup -- Tests of English bored or cylinder guns -- Wear and tear trial -- Choke bores against cylinders at Pigeons, 1876-1877 -- Purdey cup won by a Greener gun -- Trail of explosives, 1878 -- Experiments at long ranges -- London field trials of 1879 -- Winning Greener gun's record -- Chicago field trial of 1879 -- Table showing comparative results obtained at all public trials -- 14: Shooting Capabilities Of Shot-Guns -- Flight of a charge of shot -- Pattern -- Stringing -- Illustrative diagrams of chokes in cylinders -- Distribution of the pattern -- Stringing and velocity -- Variations in velocity -- Tendency is towards higher muzzle velocities -- Actual velocities at different ranges -- Patterns of closest shooting guns -- Of a Greener gun with Schultze -- Of the Greener gun which won the Leavenworth gun trial -- Killing circles and killing range -- Value of close pattern -- 15: Varieties Of Shot-Guns And Their Shooting Powers -- Calibre of shot guns -- Small bore game gun and what it will do -- 20 bore; the 16 bore -- Standard calibre game gun -- Miniature 12 bore guns -- Sportswoman's gun -- Pigeon or trap gun -- Uniformity in shot -- Testing at the target -- Extra long cartridges for pigeon shooting -- Shooting powers of the 12 bore with different loads -- 12 bore game gun -- Facsimile patterns -- Guns of reduced calibre -- Vena Contracta -- Guns of odd sizes -- Single barreled guns -- Buck shot guns -- Shot guns as ball guns -- Mead shells; Macleod's rotating bullet -- Spherical ball in coke bores -- In cylinders -- Large bores -- Wild fowling guns -- Facsimile pattern made with a Greener 4 bore -- Nitro explosives in large bore guns -- Killing range of large calibres -- Loading recommended -- Breech mechanisms for wild fowling guns -- Duck guns -- Greener's hammerless far killing duck gun -- Diagram made with a 10 bore -- 12 bore as a wild fowling gun -- Punt guns.
505 0 $a16: Choice Of A Gun -- Some remarks on the cost of guns -- Cheap guns and their recognition -- Export guns -- Spurious gun and its detection -- On the fit of guns -- On alignment -- To choose a gun which will fit correctly -- Try guns -- Shape and dimensions of gun stocks -- Balance -- Bend, length, weight, cast off -- Pistol hands and scroll guards -- Rational gun stock -- Cheek pieces -- Stocks for left shoulder -- Monopeian gun -- Varieties of gun ribs -- How to buy a gun -- Gun that will suit -- How to order a gun correctly -- 17: How To Use The Gun -- On putting guns together -- Directions -- Cleaning guns -- On stripping, repairing, and preserving guns -- Gun room -- How to use the gun -- Preparatory drill -- Handling the gun in the field -- Safe positions; carrying, waiting, loading -- Correct positions: standing, shooting -- How to take an over head shot -- Art of wing shooting -- Holding ahead -- Holding on -- Aiming -- Bad positions -- Continental style -- Conduct in the field -- Some points of etiquette -- Common sense use of the gun -- Hints on shooting -- 18: Trap Shooting -- History of pigeon shooting -- Hornsey wood ground -- Old hats -- Gun club -- Pigeons and appliances for pigeon shooting -- Blue rocks; antwerps -- Hurlingham club rules -- Gun club rules -- Handicapping rules -- Modifications of English rules -- Monaco boundary -- Hints on trap shooting -- Live birds and small loads -- Highest record scores -- Winners of the Grand Prix -- Inanimate bird and tap shooting -- Traps and targets -- Rules of the Inanimate Bird Shooting Association -- Best records -- 19: Double Guns With Single Triggers -- Early single trigger mechanisms -- Greener's first double gun with single trigger -- Single trigger trial -- Boss' single trigger gun -- Jones-Baker system -- Fulford's single trigger -- Lancaster's single trigger mechanism -- Greener's single trigger -- Lard's patent -- Advantages of the single trigger -- 20: Miscellaneous -- Repeating shot guns -- Spencer, the Winchester, the Burgess -- Lancaster four barreled guns -- Multi barreled guns -- Three barreled rifle and shot gun -- Under and over guns -- Walsh's side action PF gun -- Bacon breech loader -- Fixed barrel mechanisms -- Gye gun -- Giffard gas gun -- Electric guns and cartridges -- Miscellaneous inventions -- Grooved and perforated barrels -- Wildfowler's elliptical bore -- Reversely sighted Enfield -- Push down triggers -- Harpoon guns -- Whale lances -- Walking stick guns and saloon rifles -- Air canes -- Alarm guns -- Greener's humane cattle killer -- Silencers -- Line throwing guns -- Unge aerial torpedo -- 21: Modern Pistols -- Revolver -- Colt's inventions and improvements -- Tranter's double action -- Royal Irish Constabulary pattern -- Target revolvers -- Smith and Wesson hammerless revolver -- Mechanism of a double action revolver -- Breech loading non revolving pistols -- Derringer -- Horse pistols -- Mitrailleuse pistols -- Magazine pistols -- Automatic repeaters -- Qualities sought in pistols -- Varieties of the modern revolver -- Mr Winans's record scores -- Warrant Officer Raven's score -- Shooting qualities of pistols and revolvers -- 22: Explosives -- Classification of explosives -- Nitro compounds: their varieties -- Chemical formulae -- Nitroglycerine dynamite gun cotton -- Composition of modern high explosives -- Fulminates -- Cap compositions -- Black gunpowder: its varieties and manufacture -- Some properties of explosives -- Strength of explosives.
505 0 $a23: Internal Ballistics -- Definitions -- Ballistic action of an explosion -- Formulae for converting work into foot pounds -- Classes of explosion -- Wave pressure: it effect -- Some examples and deductions -- Express rifle burst with fine grain powder -- Relative strength of explosives -- Excessive pressures with nitro compounds -- Burst with concentrated powders -- Excessive charges of nitro compounds -- Fouling, erosion -- Bursting strain of gun barrels -- Recoil, jump and flip -- How shot emerges from a sporting gun -- 24: Ammunition And Accessories -- Note on the history of cartridges -- Lefaucheux pin fire cartridge -- Central fire cartridge: its varieties -- Pottet's, Eley's Daw's, Bailey's and the life cartridge cases -- Manufacture of cartridge cases -- Of percussion caps -- Of bullets -- Loading rifle cartridge cases -- Wadding -- Method of charging shot cartridges -- Greener shot counter -- Reloading cartridges -- How to load a gun -- Number of pellets in various loads -- Concentrators -- Scatter charges -- Shrapnel shells -- Ignition: the time required -- Flash holes in cartridge cases -- Shot, it varieties and manufacture -- Standard sizes: English, American, Continental -- Gun cases -- Gun cabinets -- Implements -- Gun slings -- Bags -- Hand guards -- Impedimenta -- 25: History Of Rifling And Its Development -- Definition of rifling -- Invention of rifling -- Forms of grooving -- Early use of the rifle -- Muzzle loading fire arms of the British army -- Story of the bayonet -- Crossed bayonets -- Development of the muzzle loading rifle -- Minie rifle against the percussion musket -- Lancaster's oval bore -- Whitworth rifling -- Whitworth against the Enfield -- Historical note on the sporting rifle -- Spherical ball rifle -- Origin of the Express -- Cape rifle -- Breech loading rifle and its development -- Metford system -- Classification of modern rifles -- 26: Modern Sporting Rifles -- Classification of sporting rifles -- Large bore rifles -- Long range sporting rifles -- Weights of rifles -- Varieties of the Express rifle -- Long range expresses -- Col Patterson on lion hunting -- Breech mechanism for sporting rifles -- Under and over rifles -- Best forms of grooving -- Sights -- Cartridges -- Hollow bullets -- Special properties -- Lord Kean'e expanding bullet -- Explosive shells -- Steel pointed bullet -- Experiments with explosive shells -- Explosive compound for shells -- Rook and rabbit rifles -- Accuracy and range of small bore rifles -- Rifled shot guns and choke bored rifles -- Rifle and shot guns -- American pocket rifles -- Morris tube -- 27: External Ballistics -- Trajectories -- Definitions; sectional density, ballistic co-efficient, drift and vertical drift -- Zero and angles of elevation -- Bullets and special projectiles -- Hebler Krnka tubular bullet -- London Field rifle trial of 1883 -- Best diagrams and trajectories -- Table of trajectories of sporting rifles -- Velocity, penetration, and trajectory of American loads -- Comparative trajectories of the Martini-Henry and the Lee-Metford -- Accuracy and range of sporting rifles -- Velocity and penetration -- Striking force -- On the choice of a sporting rifle -- Sporting range for game shooting -- 28: Single-Shot Military Rifles -- Historical note on military breech-loaders -- Snider and Snider Enfield -- Martini-Henry -- Prussian needle gun -- French Chassepot -- Miscellaneous breech mechanisms -- Braendlin-Albini -- Original Mauser -- Robert's rifle -- Russian Berdan -- Austrian Werndl -- Peabody -- Early American systems; Sharp's, Remington's, Maynard's -- Some Englsih systems; Henry's, Fields Westley-Richards's, Soper's -- 29: Early Repeating Rifle Mechanisms -- Note on magazine arms -- Repeating or magazine rifles -- Spencer -- Henry -- Winchester -- Colt -- Marlin -- Schneider -- American bolt action mechanisms -- Schulhof repeater -- Needham -- 30: Modern Military Magazine Rifles -- Historical note on the small bore -- Bolt action systems -- Vetterli -- Lebel -- Mauser -- Original Mannlicher -- Lee-Speed-Metford -- Minor mechanical details -- Ballistics of military rifles -- Modern military rifles compared -- Specification of service weapons and their powers -- Other military magazine rifles: the Berthier, the Marga -- Automatic repeating rifles -- Griffiths and Woodgates -- Mannlicher's -- Colt's -- 31: Target Rifles -- Classification of target rifles -- Historical note on target shooting -- Swiss rifleman -- First meeting of the National Rifle Association -- Successful weapons at subsequent meetings -- Record scores -- Diagrams of best targets -- Winner of the Queen's Prize, 1860-1900, and the King's Prize, 1901-1909 -- Modern American target rifles -- Continental match rifles -- Military match rifles -- Any rifles -- Positions for target shooting -- Some hints on shooting -- Aiming -- Rifle Club movement -- Morris tubes -- Miniature rifles -- Air guns -- Sights -- Rifle shooting as a sport -- Index.
520 $aFrom the Publisher: First published in Great Britain in 1881 and subsequently revised nine times between that date and 1910, The Gun and Its Development traces the fascinating history of weaponry from the obscure, ancient origins of the slingshot and the bow and continuing on to the invention of the crossbow, possibly around 1000 a.d.; the introduction of gunpowder into Europe in the 14th century; the development of sporting and military guns over the centuries thereafter; and the rise of modern, factory-mass-produced firearms in the early 20th century. Individual chapters cover early to modern handguns; gunpowder ignition methods from fuses and flintlocks to percussion fulminates; shotguns; hammerless guns; ejector guns; the history of the firearms industry; manufacturing methods and their development in Britain, America, and elsewhere; how to use and handle different types of guns; ballistics; the development of rifling and smokeless powder; and much more. Copiously illustrated with photographs and marvelous engravings, The Gun and Its Development is the classic, authoritative reference work on the subject, certain to be of great interest to marksmen, hunters, gun collectors, and anyone interested in military or industrial history. (6 x 9, 846 pages, illustrations, charts)William Wellington Greener (1834-1921) was a world-renowned expert on the history of guns, and a pioneer in both the development of modern firearms-especially choke barrels for shotguns-and in the metallurgy and machining processes used in their manufacture.
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