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 ... /

"A list of Colonel Macdonald's publications": p. [261]-265.Includes tables.Errata sheet inserted."And containing also plates and descriptions of mortars, and of instruments made use in laying them; skewing the effects of their false construction ... inclusive of an improved dragrope-exercise, artillery manœuvres for future volunteer corps, with a new pike-exercise, and the rationale or principle of double quick-time."An account of experiments made at Woolwich in 1817 & 1818, proving the accuracy of an engine for driving fuzes ... -- An exposé of the present state of telegraphic communication in this country ...Mode of access: Internet