Table of contents : Preface......Page 3 Contents......Page 7 Part 1 The Rifled Musket......Page 21 Ch1 Brown Bess......Page 22 Ch2 Improvement Begins-Lord Hardinge & Mr. Whitworth......Page 34 Ch3 The Secret Discovered-The Whitworth Rifle......Page 55 Part 2 Rifled Cannon......Page 90 Ch1 Rifled Cannon-The First Inventors......Page 91 Ch2 The Armstrong Gun......Page 115 Ch3 The Whitworth Gun-Adoption of the Armstrong Gun By The War Department......Page 137 Ch4 Effect of Sir William Armstrongs Official Relation To The War Department......Page 162 Ch5 The Contest......Page 181 Part 3 The Iron Navy......Page 240 Ch1 The Nation Resolve to Construct a Navy of Iron......Page 241 Ch2 Iron Ships Defy Artillery......Page 251 Ch3 Whitworth Projectiles Penetrate Armor-Clad Ships......Page 263 Ch4 The Whitworth Shells Penetrate Armor Plate......Page 292 Conclusion - The Present Aspect of the Question......Page 330 Index......Page 366