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• Shells and Shell-Guns (Philadelphia: King and Baird, printers, 1856), by John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gyroscopes et projectiles (Delagrave, 1923), by H. Bouasse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scientific American army and coast defense supplement ... Guns, armor, and fortifications ... (Munn & co., 1898), by Scientific American supplement (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States artillery ammunition; 3 to 6 in. shrapnel shells, 3 to 6 in. high explosive shells and their cartridge cases (McGraw-Hill book company, inc.; [etc., etc.], 1917), by Ethan Viall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fair play's a jewel. (J. Ollivier, 1849), by Samuel Alfred Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manufacture of artillery ammunition (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc.; [etc., etc.], 1917), by Leon Pratt Alford, Fred H. Colvin, Robert Mawson, E. A. Suverkrop, and John Herbert Van Deventer (page images at HathiTrust)
• High explosive shells (American machinist, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hydraulic forging and the plastic deformation of steel and its heat treatment. (The Library press limited, 1921), by Clifford O. Bower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practica shell forging and the plastic deformation of steel and its heat treatment. (Longmans, Green and co., 1919), by Clifford O. Bower (page images at HathiTrust)
• High-explosive shell manufacture; a comprehensive treatise on the forging, machining and heat-treatment of high-explosive shells and the manufacture of cartridge cases, primers, and fuses, giving complete directions for tool equipment and methods of setting up machines, together with a review of the making of powders, high explosives, and fulminates (The Industrial Press; [etc., etc.], 1916), by Douglas T. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shrapnel shell manufacture; a comprehensive treatise on the forging, machining, and heat-treatment of shells, and the manufacture of cartridge cases and fuses for shrapnel used in field and mountain artillery, giving complete direction for tool equipment and methods of setting up machines, together with government specifications for this class of munitions (The Industrial Press, 1915), by Douglas T. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for inspectors. (International arms & fuze co., inc., 1916), by Wilford Judson Hawkins and inc. International arms & fuze co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shrapnel and other war material (American Machinist, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guns and projectiles (Gieve's, 1914), by Rudolf Henry Cole Verner (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la résistance de l'air au mouvement des projectiles (Imprimerie et librairie militaires J. Dumaine, 1874), by Auguste Antoine Grouard (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la résistance de l'air au mouvement des projectiles. Avec 7 croquis dans le texte. (Berger-Levrault, 1928), by Auguste Antoine Grouard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to Description and instructions on the use of high-capacity drop bombs Mark I, II, and III. (To be-used in connection with War department document no. 724) (Govt. print off., 1918), by United States. Bureau of Aircraft Production (page images at HathiTrust)
• On a problem of projectiles ... (Press of the New Era Printing Co., 1923), by Allan Wilson Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artillerie Allemande les projectiles (Imprimerie Nationale, 1917), by 2e France. Armée. Grand quartier général des armées du nord et du nord-est. État-major. Bureau et Artillerie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board on Heavy Ordnance and Projectiles : appointed in conformity with the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1881 ... (Govt. Print. Off., 1882), by United States. Board on Heavy Ordnance and Projectiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Si può già tentare un viaggio dalla terra alla luna? : relazione di esperienze eseguite coi propulsori a doppia reazione ; altre esperienze, Nuovo processo per la stereoscopia diretta ; Bombe da fucile ; L'automobile ippico nello sport (Società editrice libraria, 1923), by Luigi Gussalli (page images at HathiTrust)
• On a problem of projectiles ... ([N.p.], 1917), by Allan Wilson Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude du mouvement des projectiles dans le cas où la résistance de l'air est supposée proportionnelle au cube de la vitesse. (Paris, 1899), by Magnus de Sparre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle-musket : a practical treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett rifle recently adopted in the British service (Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A circumstantial and explanatory account of experiments ... the relative times of burning of fuzes driven by a machine opposed to those of the common description : with a correspondence carried on in the years 1817 & 1818 on this and other important branches of the science of artillery : to which is subjoined an appendix being an exposé of the present state of telegraphic communication in this country ... (Printed for the author and sold by T. Egerton, 1819), by John Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shrapnel and other war material (McGraw-Hill, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of [aircraft and missile] structures (Air Science Associates of Southern California for the U. S. Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1960), by Hugh Harrison Hurt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aeroballistic evaluation and computer stability analysis of the U. S. Navy 20-millimeter general purpose projectile (White Oak, Md., Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1971), by Frank J. Regan and Virginia L. Schermerhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of armor-piercing shells (with suggestions for their improvement) ([New York?], 1915), by Carlos De Zafra (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of police handgun ammunition : summary report (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice :, 1975), by R. C. Dobbyn, L. D. Shubin, William J. Bruchey, and National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transonic static and dynamic stability characteristics of a finned projectile configuration (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1978), by Richmond P. Boyden, Edwin E. Davenport, Cuyler W. Brooks, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collision forces for compliant projectiles (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ;, 1990), by Joseph E. Grady and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plate-gap model of a porous solid and its appication to impact by reduced density projectiles (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968), by J. F. Heyda (page images at HathiTrust)
• High-velocity explosively driven guns (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1970), by J. D. Watson, Ames Research Center, and Physics International Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of explosively driven launcher for meteoroid studies (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1973), by Dennis W. Baum, Ames Research Center, and Physics International Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-5734 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1970), by Robert H. Morrison, Ames Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary investigation of projectile shape effects in hypervelocity impact of a double-sheet structure (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1972), by Robert H. Morrison and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-1882 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Robert P. Dengler, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypervelocity impacts into stainless-steel tubes armored with reinforced beryllium (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1966), by A. R. McMillan, James H. Diedrich, Nestor Clough, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-3456 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1966), by Francis S. Stepka, Lewis Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correlation of new hypervelocity impact data by threshold penetration relations (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1973), by Robert J. Hayduk, Emilio Alfaro-Bou, Paul S. Gough, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-6687 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1972), by Edward L. Shriver, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expériences sur les shrapnels; nouveaux développements sur les résultats obtenus en Belgique. (J. Corréard, 1848), by Charles Bormann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lois de la Resistance de l'Air sur les projectiles. (Librairie Militaire :, 1857), by Is. Didion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shells, and shell-guns. (King & Baird; [etc.,etc], 1857), by John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shrapnel shell in England and in Belgium : with some reflections on the use of this projectile in the late Crimean War : a historico-technical sketch (s.n.], 1862), by Charles Guillaume Bormann and James Verner Scaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of the history construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management Turkish and other oriental bows of mediaeval and later times. (Longmans, Green & co., 1907), by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on a naval mission to Europe, especially devoted to the material and construction of artillery .. (Govt. Print. Off., 1873), by Edward Simpson and United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance (page images at HathiTrust)
• A film-image-synchronized drum camera system for projectile-in-flight photography (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1968), by Paul M. Giles, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours d'artillerie. Les projectiles (Typ. de E. Bourges, 1881), by E. Jouffret and France) École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie (Fontainebleau (page images at HathiTrust)
• A historical sketch of the experimental determination of the resistance of the air to the motion of projectiles. (The University press, 1903), by Francis Bashforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Senate ordnance report. (G.P.O., 1883), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Heavy Ordnance and Projectiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of empirical and analytical procedures used for predicting the rigid body motion of an earth penetrator (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1975), by Paul F. Hadala (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of projectile penetration into concrete and rock targets (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavement Laboratory, 1975), by Behzad Rohani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of a high-velocity powder gun and analysis of fragment penetration tests into sand (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1975), by Dwain K. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of a projectile penetration theory : report 1, penetration theory for shallow to moderate depths (Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1975), by Robert S. Bernard, S. V. Hanagud, Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.), and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of a projectile penetration theory : report 2, deep penetration theory for homogeneous and layered targets (U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1976), by Robert S. Bernard and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torpedoes : their invention and use from the first application to the art of war to the present time ... ([s.n.], 1866), by W. R. King and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of projectile penetration of natural earth materials (Sandia Laboratory, 1968), by John Lewis Colp, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Sandia Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measurement of spin decay and instability of liquid-filled projectiles via telemetry (Aberdeen, Maryland : Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1973., 1973), by Andrew Mark, William H. Mermagen, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pressure distributions about 60mm and 81mm mortar projectiles during shot ejection (Aberdeen, Maryland : Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1975., 1975), by Edward M. Schmidt, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of a chronograph, adapted for measuring the varying velocity of a body in motion through the air, and for other purposes. (Bell and Daldy, 1866), by Francis Bashforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specifications for high explosive shells : an abstract of the official British, French, and Russian government specifications for high-explosive shells and fuses. (Industrial Press, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur le calcul des grandes trajectories des projectiles (F. Ceuterick;, 1923), by Magnus Louis Marie Sparre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les carabines de guerre, les fusils transformés et leurs balles ... (C. Tanera, 1860), by Louis Jean Ghislain Charrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. The petition of William Wheeler Hubbell of the City of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania. (King & Baird, 1861), by William Wheeler Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A petition to the national government, embodying facts and statements in furtherance of the claim of the late Cyrus Alger for remuneration for the adoption and use, by the United-States army and navy, of certain inventions of his relating to fuzes and shells ... with corroborative official documents, testifying to their introduction into the United-States service, and their indispensable value. (F. Taylor, 1862), by Francis Alger and Franck Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• La fonte aciérée et les obus fabriqués avec cette fonte. (Berger-Levrault, 1921), by Gabriel Jean Herment (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Induced side forces on bodies of revolution at high angle of attack (Silver Spring, Maryland : Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak Laboratory, 1975., 1975), by Jr. Wardlaw, A. M. Morrison, and Naval Surface Weapons Center. White Oak Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical shell forging and the plastic deformation of shell and its heat treatment (Library Press Ltd., 1919), by Clifford O. Bower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The effect of boattail shape on magnus (Dahlgren, Virginia : Naval Surface Weapons Center, Advanced Weapons Department, 1976., 1976), by Gil Y. Graff, Frank G. Moore, Dahlgren Laboratory, and Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S.). Dahlgren Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Body alone aerodynamics of guided and unguide projectiles at subsonic, transonic and supersonic mach numbers (Dahlgren, Virginia : Surface Warefare Department, Naval Weapons Laboratory, 1972., 1972), by Frank G. Moore and Naval Weapons Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• X-ray multi-flash system for measurement of projectile performance at the target (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland ; U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratorties, 1966., 1966), by Chester L. Grabarek, Louis Herr, and U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the true dynamic flight of projectiles : dealing with new factors in gunnery and the theoretical exposition of a fundamental system of complete projectile control : as also its practical application to small arms and artillery technique (Syndicate Pub. Co., 1924), by Arnold Louis Chevallier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La nueva artilleria (Ferrari, 1923), by Louis Thouvenin and Carlos A. Gómez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on certain experimental and theoretical investigations relative to the quality, form, and combination of materials for defensive armor, together with incidental facts relative to their use for industrial purposes. (Govt. Print. Off., 1870), by William Rice King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Development of Armor-piercing Shells (With Suggestions for Their Improvement), by Carlos De Zafra (Gutenberg ebook)

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