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ARSENAL , an See also:establishment for the construction, repair, See also:receipt, storage and issue of warlike stores; details as to materiel will be found under See also:AMMUNITION, See also:ORDNANCE, &c. The word " arsenal " appears in various forms in Romanic See also:languages (from which it has been adopted into See also:Teutonic), i.e. See also:Italian arzanale, See also:Spanish arsenal, &c.; Italian also has arzana and darsena, and Spanish a longer See also:form atarazanal. The word is of Arabic origin, being a corruption of daras-sina'ah, See also:house of See also:trade or manufacture, See also:dar, house, al, the, and sina'ah, trade, manufacture, . See also:ana'a, to make. Such guesses as arx navalis, See also:naval citadel, arx senatus (i.e. of See also:Venice, &c.), are now entirely rejected. A first-class arsenal, which can renew the materiel and equipment of a large See also:army, embraces a See also:gun factory, See also:carriage factory, laboratory and small-arms ammunition factory, small-arms factory, See also:harness, See also:saddlery and See also:tent factories, and a See also:powder factory; in addition it must possess See also:great See also:store-houses. In a second-class arsenal the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategical considerations. If of the first class, it should be situated at the See also:base of operations and See also:supply, secure from attack, not too near a frontier, and placed so as to draw in readily the resources of the See also:country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defences would be on the See also:scale of those of a large fortress. The usual subdivision of branches in a great arsenal is into A, Storekeeping; B, Construction; C, See also:Administration. Under A we should have the following departments and stores:—Departments of issue and receipt, See also:pattern See also:room, armoury See also:department, ordnance or See also:park, harness, saddlery and accoutrements, See also:camp equipment, tools and See also:instruments, engineer store, magazines, raw material store, See also:timber yard, breaking-up store, unserviceable store. Under B—Gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory, small-arms factory, harness and tent factory, powder factory, &c. In a second-class arsenal there would be workshops instead of these factories. C—Under the See also:head of administration would be classed the See also:chief director of the arsenal, officials military and See also:civil, non-commissioned See also:officers and military artificers, civilian foremen, workmen and labourers, with the clerks and writers necessary for the See also:office See also:work of the establishments. In the manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping See also:part, See also:good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive See also:state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores. For See also:fuller details the reader is referred to papers by See also:Sir E. Collen, R.A., in vol. viii., and Lieut. C. E. Grover, R.E., in vol. vi. Proceedings of R. See also:Artillery Institution. In See also:England the Royal Arsenal, See also:Woolwich, manufactures and stores the requirements of the army and See also:navy (see WOOLWICH). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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