
Stories by Edward C. Crossman


Shooting Clinker Rings from Kilns

Leading a River Across the Desert
The Newest Plan of Los Angeles Engineers to Provide More Water for that Enterprising Metropolis

Tabbing the Speeding Bullet
How Powder Pressures and Velocities of Flight Are Measured

Gun Catastrophes
Some of the Reasons Why Small Arms Open Up at Points Where They Were Not Intended to Open

The Development of Accurate Ammunition
Rifle-Bullets that have made the Long-Range target match a Contest of Endurance

A Shooting University
The Great Naval Rifle Range at Caldwell, New Jersey, Where the General Public Will Be Taught by Experts How to Use the Rifle

A Successful Cotton Picker, The Federal Government's Mussel Farm, and more

The Self-Loading Military Rifle
The Gun That Operates Its Own Breech Mechanism

Sea-Weed for War, Clearing the Way for the Trolley
"In the salty brown uncultivated no-man's fields, unharvested save in spasmodic fashion, there floats
more than two million tons of potassium chloride, not to mention the precious guncotton solvent acetone and other byproducts of the kelp."...

The San Diego Aviator Factory
Preliminary Training of Our Flying Men at a Leading School

Shotguns for Our Aviators

The Gasoline Horse in the West
Tractors and Tractors and then Some More Tractors; How their Value for Farm Service has been Demonstrated in California

Uncle Sam's New Infantry Rifle
How the British Arm of 1914, Chambered for Our Cartridge, Compares With Our Old Springfield Rifle

German Military Rifle Practice
Why the British Soldier Is a Better Marksman than His Foe

What the French Helmet will Stand

Passing of the Tented City
How the Aeroplane Scout Has Affected the Military Camp

How Guns are Blown Up
Destructive Effects of Overloads of Powder and of Obstructions in the Barrel

Cartridge Cases of Steel
Has Germany Found a Substitute for Drawn Brass?

Bayonet Fighting
An Ancient But Indispensable Form of Combat