author
H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime
b. 1840
A British artillery officer who wrote with unusual range, moving from mathematics to military history. His books on quaternions, gunpowder, and artillery show a mind drawn to both theory and practical invention.
1 Audiobook
Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress
by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime
About the author
Born in 1840, Henry William Lovett Hime wrote under the name H. W. L. Hime. Surviving library records connect him with works on mathematics and military history, including The Outlines of Quaternions, Anharmonic Coordinates, Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress, and The Origin of Artillery.
His published work suggests a career shaped by technical training and military experience. Catalog records for The Origin of Artillery identify him as a lieutenant-colonel, and the book itself revises and expands material from his earlier research on ammunition and early cannon.
Although biographical details about his personal life are scarce, his books remain a vivid record of a late-Victorian and early-20th-century writer who cared deeply about how science, engineering, and warfare developed over time.