Observations - Theoretical And Practical - On Muskets, Rifles And Projectiles
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Observations - Theoretical And Practical - On Muskets, Rifles And Projectiles - Henry Wilkinson
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PREFACE
TO THE SECOND EDITION.
THE first edition of this pamphlet having been disposed of in a month, I am enabled in a second edition to explain the principles of a new projectile I have invented, which will, I think, entirely supersede the Carabine à Tige, the Minié, and every other that has preceded it. But I beg it may be distinctly understood as a new system, and not an alteration or adaptation of any one previously existing; therefore it may be properly called Wilkinson’s Projectile,
or Wilkinson’s Self-expanding Solid Bullet,
and thus avoid the confusion of applying foreign names to an invention, the principle of which not only differs from all others, but is purely English.
OBSERVATIONS ON MUSKETS, RIFLES,
PROJECTILES, &c.
PART I.
INTRODUCTION.
"Whatever state shall thoroughly comprehend the nature and advantages of rifled barrel pieces, and, having facilitated and completed their construction, shall introduce into their armies their general use, with a dexterity in the management of them,—they will by this means acquire a superiority which will almost equal anything that has been done at any time by the particular excellence of any one kind of arms; and will, perhaps, fall but little short of the wonderful effects which histories relate to have been formerly produced by the first inventors of