id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 34459 Corbin, Thomas W. The Romance of War Inventions A Description of Warships, Guns, Tanks, Rifles, Bombs, and Other Instruments and Munitions of Warfare, How They Were Invented & How They Are Employed .txt text/plain 88978 5453 78 carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) and a little vaseline added, form a soft range and vigorous hitting power a gun needs to be as long as possible. The guns, therefore, with which the ships are armed, always form a powerful jet of air through the gun every time the breech is opened, a steel shell and then hurl the whole thing at him out of a gun. between the gun and the shell when firing takes place. case of ordinary ships where speed is not of such great importance, the It is strange to think how short a time the iron or steel ship has been illustrates the fact that in comparing the power of guns we need to wonderful ships, more particularly to the means for working the guns. through the water will not make some wave, but certain forms cause less use the orthodox term, is placed another little piece of iron called the ./cache/34459.txt ./txt/34459.txt