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STEAMSHIPS are now called boatst and the largest cannon are called guns, according to a process in language which philologists have explained; but while steamships have increased in size and complication, the gun, however big, satisfies the Hibernian definition of a cylindrical hole with metal placed round it; and the most difficult problem of the gun-maker is to dispose the metal in the most efficient manner, hampered as he is by the limitations of the metallurgical art.
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GREENHILL, A. The Scientific Principles Involved in Making Big Guns: I. Nature 42, 304–309 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042304a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/042304a0