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Spis treści w j. angielskim:
- Ordnance, carriages, and ammunition.
- Construction of ordnance.
- Systems of rifling.
- Smooth-bored ordnance.
- Rifled ordnance.
- Construction of artillery cariage.
- Artillery travelling cariage.
- Standing and sliding carriages, beds, and platforms.
- Ammunition for smooth-bobed guns.
- Ammunition for rifled ordnance.
- Means of firing ordnance. rockets.
- Principles and practice of gunnery.
- Importance of a knowledge of the principles of gunnery.
- The forces which act upon a projectile within the bore of a gun.
- Initial velocity.
- Forces which limit the trajectory of a projectile.
- Deviation of projectiles and pbinciples of rifling.
- The penetration of projectiles.
- Practice of gunnery.
- Effect of artillery fire upon objects.
- Accuracy and rapidity of fire.
- Organisation and use of artillery in warfare.
- Progress of artillery in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
- Artillery in the nineteenth century up to the introduction of rifled guns.
- Organisation and equipment of artillery.
- Employment of field artillery. Transport, marching, and encamping.
- Employment of field artillery. Tactics of field artillery.
- Employment of field artillery. Examples classed according to arms used.
- Siege artillery. Organisation and equipment.
- Siege artillery. Examples to illustrate remarks.
- Artillery for garrison and coast sertice.
- Appendices.
- Tables.
- Notes on foreign ordnance.
- Mitrailleuses.
- Instruments for determining the velocities of projectiles.
- Deviation of flat-headed projectiles.