Sentence examples for powder charges from inspiring English sources

By 1830, percussion caps (attributed to the Philadelphian Joshua Shaw in 1815) were becoming the accepted system for igniting firearm powder charges.

James Roe, a 64-year-old computer consultant from rural Pennsylvania, spent a recent Saturday in a Pittsburgh suburb learning about riflings, hangfires and powder charges.

Thus the projectile's velocity, v, may be determined from the equation mv = (m + M V, which gives The initial impact of science on internal ballistics was to show that traditional powder charges for cannon were much larger than necessary.

Larger guns, increased powder charges, and greater tube pressures were made possible by the replacement of cast iron by built-up wrought-iron guns (later, cast steel and, eventually, forged steel were used).

Now sachets of blood and small powder charges sewn into clothes would become part of a film's resources – Sam Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch were just a couple of years away.

The team added that it expected several harpoons with different powder charges would be put on the spacecraft to ensure materials could be recovered from different parts of the same comet.

This explosion then ignites the black powder or other powder charge.

In reality, all this device can do is detonate the powder charge within a bullet casing.

It took a two-pound powder charge to produce the required 148 decibels.

The Cr2O3 is blended with finely divided aluminum powder, charged to a refractory-lined container, and ignited.

(In that case, moist clay was sometimes packed atop the wadding that separated the ball from the powder charge).