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J.Whitworth - Guns And Steel
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Preface
First
Comparative Trials Of The Whitworth And Enfield Rifles
Rifle
Trials At Hythe in 1857
Trials
Of The Whitworth And Enfield Rifles, Made At Woolwich In The Year 1857
A
Rifle Fired By The Queen
Report
Of The Ordnance Select Committee, 1862
The
Henry And Metford Rifles
Hexagonal
Rifling
Note
This
document was published in London by Longmans, Green Reader, & Dyer
in 1873.The text reproduced is from Chapter II and concerns Whitworth's
involvement in rifle design. The remainder of the work concerns artillery
and Whitworth's 'fluid-compressed steel.'
Text
provided by David Minshall.
A
PDF version of this article may puchased for download. Price: £0.90.
Courtesy Research
Press
Guns and Steel
by
Sir Joseph Whitworth, BART.,
C.E., F.R.S., LL.D., D.C.L.
From a photograph
taken in 1882
Preface
It is probable that few are aware of the manner in which
I approached the subject of rifling guns, or know that the Whitworth
rifle was produced as the result of many months of experimental research
in the rifle gallery, five hundred yards long, erected in my grounds
at Manchester. I cannot mention this fact without saying how much personal
interest the then Commander-in-Chief, Lord Hardinge, took in the experiments,
every stage of which he communicated to the Prince Consort. At that
time I demonstrated every conclusion by the most carefully conducted
trials, and I proved that the Enfield service rifle of that day was
wrong in every particular. The diameter of the bullet was too large
for the size of the gun, the bullet itself was too short, and the twist
of rifling was not one-third of what it should have been. Accordingly,
in the year 1857, the public trials of my rifle against the Enfield
rifle, made by the direction of Lord Panmure, established the superiority
of my weapon, as well as the soundness of the conclusions at which I
had arrived.
In 1859 a Committee of officers reported that the bore
of my muzzle-loading rifle was too small for use as a military weapon.
In 1869 another Committee recommended that the bore of
the service breech-loading rifle should be exactly that rejected ten
years previously.
IN the year 1854, when Lord Hardinge was endeavouring
to obtain the best possible rifle with which to arm the British troops,
he requested me to aid him by investigating the mechanical principles
applicable in the construction of an efficient weapon. I willingly agreed
to do so, subject, however, to the condition that I should have a suitable
gallery, protected from changes in the wind and from fluctuations in
the atmosphere, wherein to carry on the experiments which were necessary
for enabling me to arrive at any sound conclusion.
It was absolutely essential to track the path of a rifle
bullet throughout its entire course, to determine whether its point
preserved a true forward direction, and to record its trajectory. This
could be done most readily in a closed gallery provided with screens
of very light tissue paper.
Accordingly a gallery, 500 yards in length, was erected
in my grounds at Rusholme, in the year 1855. Its height was 20 feet
and width 16 feet; it was slated, and had openings on the south side
only for the admission of light and for getting rid of the smoke.
The first result of the work done in this gallery was
the construction of my small-bore rifle.
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