The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . e and so formed a rudejoint. Each chamber was nearly filled with powder and themouth closed by a wood stopper driven in; it was then insertedinto the breech of the gun and secured by a wedge. Even withfeeble gunpowder this means of securing the chamber does notcommend itself, but as powder improved there was a greaterprobability of the breech end of the gun giving way; besideswhich the escape of the powder gas from the imperfect jointbetween the chamber and gun must have caused great in-convenienc
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . e and so formed a rudejoint. Each chamber was nearly filled with powder and themouth closed by a wood stopper driven in; it was then insertedinto the breech of the gun and secured by a wedge. Even withfeeble gunpowder this means of securing the chamber does notcommend itself, but as powder improved there was a greaterprobability of the breech end of the gun giving way; besideswhich the escape of the powder gas from the imperfect jointbetween the chamber and gun must have caused great in-convenience. To these causes must be attributed the generaldisuse of the breech-loading system during the 18th and firsthalf of the 19th centuries. Robins mentions (Tracts of Gunnery, p. 337) that experi-mental breech-loading rifled pieces had been tried in 1745 inEngland to surmount the difficulty of loading from the these there was an opening made in the side of the breechwhich, after the loading had been completed, was closed by ascrew. The breech arrangement (fig. S) of the rifled gun in-. ot, A*
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