306 pages, about 11" x 8", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice original. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 306

• Gunpowder and Ammunition Their Origins 1904
• By Henry Hime, London, England
• Ammunition
• Carcasses
• Casing
• Darts
• English Powder
• English Powder at Various Times
• Explosive Fireballs
• Fireballs
• Fireworks
• Fixed Lights
• Friar Bacon
• Greek Fires
• Gunpowder
• Hand Ammunition
• Hand Grenades
• Hot Wires
• Igneous Projectiles
• Igniters
• Matches and Portfires
• Origin of Gunpowder
• Percussion and Concussion Fuzes
• Priming Power
• Round Shot
• Saltpetre
• Sea Fires
• Shock Projectiles
• Shrapnel
• Table of Ammunition
• Tables of Ammunition
• The Arabs
• The Chinese
• The Greeks
• The Hindus
• Time Fuzes
• War Rockets