Published Resources Details Journal Article

Title
Curious troubles with slow-burning powder
In
The Engineer
Imprint
vol. 85, 11 March 1898, p. 236
Description

Accession No.2921

Abstract

When slow-burning powder was first taken up as a means of developing greater energy with lower maximum pressure, some of the problems that were associated with it had not been anticipated eg. Shells failing to explode, excessive corrosion, and Palliser shells bursting in the bore.