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ROCKET . (I) The name (Fr. coquette, See also:Lat. eruca, a See also:kind of See also:cabbage) of two See also:species of See also:plants. The one, Eruca saliva, is a cruciferous See also:annual with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:flowers veined with See also:purple; the leaves have a See also:sharp flavour and are used in See also:southern See also:Europe for salads. The other is a See also:hardy perennial herbaceous plant,
of the genus Hesperis, of which Hesperis matronalis is the most See also:familiar species (see See also:HORTICULTURE).
(2) A See also:cylinder of See also:paper, pasteboard or See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal, filled with an explosive mixture. This word, which appears in See also:mary forms in various See also:languages, is from the It. rocchetta, diminutive of rocca, a See also:distaff, the obsolete See also:English " See also:rock "; the application
is due to a resemblance in shape. Rockets are used in pyrotechny for purpose of display, scattering showers of stars, coloured balls, &c., on bursting (see See also:FIREWORKS). They are also used in signalling, and especially as a See also:part of See also:life-saving apparatus for wrecks (see LIFEBOAT and LIFE-SAVING SERVICE).
Large and heavy rockets, of which the See also:head formed a projectile, had too a considerable See also:vogue in the See also:early part of the 19th See also:century for See also:war purposes. They were invented by See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Congreve (q.v.) and employed by him both afloat in See also:coast operations and in See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field operations. Brought to the See also:notice of all armies by the fact that a rocket See also:battery of the Royal See also:Artillery served in the allied See also:army in the See also:Leipzig See also:campaign, war rockets were introduced in many armies, being sometimes issued as an additional portion of the equipment of See also:ordinary field batteries, sometimes reserved for See also:special rocket batteries. The Congreve rocket was in use in the See also:British army as See also:late as 186o. There were four natures—3-pounder, 6-pounder, 12-pounder and 24-pounder. The See also:case was of See also:sheet-See also:iron, on to which was screwed a cylindro-conoidal head forming the projectile. The head was made hollow and could be filled with a bursting See also:charge if a See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell effect was desired, a See also:base See also:fuze being provided. The iron case contained the rocket See also:composition, and was closed at the See also:rear end by a metal See also:plate with five holes or vents, and on the centre a See also:bush into which the stick was screwed. These rockets were fired from rocket tubes on tripods, the tubes being provided with a tangent sight. Against masses of troops within easy range, the war rocket was considered an efficient See also:engine; it was used also to set See also:fire to buildings, but was always deficient in accuracy. Eventually the Congreve rocket was superseded by the See also:Hale, of which two patterns were in use, the 9-pounder and the 24-pounder, for field and fortress warfare respectively. These had no sticks, and were centred by the arrangement of the vent, the gases, as they emerged from the vent, impinging upon a See also:- SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl
screw-formed tail, to which they imparted the necessary rotation. These rockets were fired from a trough. The maximum effective range of the 9-pounder Hale rocket was about 1200 yards. The use of these engines was discontinued in the British service about 1885. On the See also:continent of Europe they had disappeared more than twenty years before. See also:Austria, the last See also:power to use them, See also:broke up her rocket batteries in 1867.
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