Projectile-Throwing Engines and Turkish Bows

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Author

Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, 1848-1916

Title

A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

Original Publication

UK: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

U: Military science

Subject

Engines of war

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74719

Release Date

November 11, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THE PROJECTILE-THROWING ENGINES OF THE ANCIENTS AND TURKISH AND OTHER ORIENTAL BOWS OF MEDIÆVAL AND LATER TIMES — THE PROJECTILE-THROWING ENGINES OF THE ANCIENTS — CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.PART I INTRODUCTORY NOTES ON ANCIENT PROJECTILE ENGINES
5. 5.PART II THE CATAPULT (WITH A SLING) — Fig. 7 .—Catapult (with a sling), see opposite page. — Fig. 10 . The Iron Slip-hook. — HOW TO WORK THE CATAPULT
6. 6.PART III THE BALISTA — Fig. 14 (Opposite Page).—The Mechanism of the Stock of an Arrow-Throwing Balista.
7. 7.PART IV THE TREBUCHET
8. 8.PART V HISTORICAL NOTES ON ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL SIEGE ENGINES AND THEIR EFFECTS IN WARFARE
9. 9.A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION, POWER AND MANAGEMENT OF TURKISH AND OTHER ORIENTAL BOWS OF MEDIÆVAL AND LATER TIMES
10. 10.CONTENTS
11. 11.PART I THE TURKISH BOW—CONSTRUCTION AND DIMENSIONS
12. 12.PART II THE BOW-STRING
13. 13.PART III THE ARROW
14. 14.PART IV THE METHOD OF STRINGING A TURKISH, PERSIAN OR INDIAN BOW.
15. 15.PART V THE HORN GROOVE
16. 16.PART VI THE THUMB-RING.
17. 17.PART VII THE RANGE OF THE TURKISH BOW — TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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