The French eprouvette is usually a mortar of seven inches (French) in caliber, which with three ounces of powder should throw a copper globe of sixty pounds weight to the distance of 300 feet.
Arcys made an eprouvette on the principle of Mr. Robins.
The eprouvette constructed by the late Mr. Ramsden, differs from the preceding simply by the gun's recoiling in a direction parallel to itself, instead of its vibrating as a pendulum.
By the eprouvette of Darcy, consisting of a cannon, which, being suspended to the extremity of a bar of iron, described by its recoil an arc, of which the degrees can be measured.
This last was also tried in the mortar-eprouvette against the common proof powder, and was found to maintain a small superiority.
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