From The Gun and Its Development, W.W. Greener, 8th edition, 1907

The word laminated, as the designation of a gun barrel, arose from the fact that…thin strips, plates, or laminae of steel, piled alternately with iron plates, formed the composite metal. They differ from Damascus in so far as the iron and steel are differently arranged in the pile, so that instead of a decided curl in the figure there is only what may be termed “herring-bone” lines running spirally round the barrel from end to end.

http://books.google.com/books?id=3HMCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA224&dq=%22laminated+steel%22#PPA225,M1


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