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During the early sixties another type of vessel came to the front. Captain Coles had invented the "turret," which consisted of a turn-table or revolving platform, round which was a shield of thick armour, turning with it: the top was also closed in. In the shield was a very small port for the gun which was aimed by revolving the turret till it pointed at the required object.
Inside the barbette the gun revolved on its turn-table; its breech, together with the gunners, was protected by a hood of armour which revolved with the gun. This arrangement is probably less liable to be knocked out of action by the enemy's shot than the turret. Amidships was the "secondary" armament of six 6-inch breech-loading guns.
We were now standing in the walled-in excavation for a new locomotive turn-table. This pit was still free from its machinery and platform. "We are done now!" I said, staring around as Verbitzsky stopped in the middle of the circular pit, which was some forty feet wide. Just as the police came crowding to the edge, Verbitzsky fell on his knees as if in surrender.
"We'll have to take this engine," he said. "The Yanks have stolen my train!" The three men joined him, and before the engineer could protest, they were pushing at the bar of the turn-table, swinging the locomotive around. "I haven't much fuel," said the engineer. "You have enough to get us to Kingston," answered Fuller. "Get aboard there!"
At the turn-table, near the northern extremity of the fifth gallery, two big piles of rubbish had forced their way through from the fifth gallery, and from the looks of the timbers, more was about to come.
"With regard to the mechanical contrivance which you propose for working the instrument, I think it is singularly ingenious and beautiful, and will compensate for any imperfection in the optical arrangements which are rendered necessary for its adoption. The application of the railway turn-table is very happy, and not less so is the extraction of the image through the hollow trunnions.
Coles's turrets, being then a novel project, were likened, explanatorily, to a railway turn-table, a very illustrative definition; and Smith was already convinced of the value of the design, which was proved in Hampton Roads the day after he himself fell gloriously on the deck of the Congress.
Dark hair and eyes? Stylish dressed?" "No, wrinkled complexion, bald, and what few hairs he's got, gray." She smiled; she couldn't see the beauty Love had gilded his image with. Sez I, "If he's incarcerated in some dungeon below, I too will mount the turn-table of torture, and share his fate or perish on the turn table."
It would thus fall off to the westward, and, in place of moving due south, would in the northern hemisphere drift to the southwest, and in the southern hemisphere toward the northwest. A good illustration of this action may be obtained from an ordinary turn-table such as is used about railway stations to reverse the position of a locomotive.
An Alternately-pegged "Shive" or Pulley for Rope Band Power Transmission. A Turn-table "Trunnion Vision" Reflecting Telescope. This is so arranged that the observer can direct the Telescope and view an object in any part of the heavens without moving from his seat, which is attached to the turn-table. For explanations, see text, p. 337.
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