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Arsenal

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:''This article is about armaments factories. For the London football club, see Arsenal F.C., for all other uses see Arsenal (disambiguation).'' An '''arsenal''' is an establishment for the construction, repair, receipt, storage and issue of weapons and ammunition. The word ''arsenal'' appears in various forms in Romanic languages (from which it has been adopted into Teutonic), i.e. Italian ''arzanale'', Spanish ''arsenal'', etc.; Italian also has ''arzana'' and ''darsena'', and Spanish a longer form ''atarazanal''. The word is of Arabic origin, being a corruption of ''daras-sina'ah'', house of trade or manufacture, ''dar'', house, ''al'', the, and ''sina'ah'', trade, manufacture (with ''jana'a'', to make). Such guesses as ''arx navalis'', naval citadel, ''arx senatus'' (i.e. of Venice, etc.), have been discounted. Image:View of the entrance to the Arsenal by Canaletto, 1732.jpg thumb|275px|View of the Entrance to the Arsenal by [[Canaletto, 1732.]] Image:Russia-Moscow-Arsenal.jpg thumb|275px|Cannons and mortars of Napoleon's Army exhibited along the wall of the [[Kremlin Arsenal.]] For the rest of Early Modern Europe, ''the'' Arsenal was the Venetian Arsenal. A first-class arsenal, which can renew the materiel and equipment of a large army, embraces a gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory and small-arms ammunition factory, small-arms factory, harness, saddlery and tent factories, and a powder factory; in addition it must possess great store-houses. In a second-class arsenal the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategic considerations. If of the first class, it should be situated at the base of operations and supply, secure from attack, not too near a frontier, and placed so as to draw in readily the resources of the country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defences would be on the scale of those of a large fortress. The usual subdivision of branches in a great arsenal is into A, Storekeeping; B, Construction; C, Administration. Under A we should have the following departments and stores: Departments of issue and receipt, pattern room, Armour armoury department, ordnance or park, harness, saddlery and accoutrements, camp equipment, tools and instruments, engineer store, timber yard, braking-up store, unserviceable store. Under B: Gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory, small-arms factory, harness and tent factory, powder factory, etc. In a second- class arsenal there would be workshops instead of these factories. C: Under the head of administration would be classed the chief director of the arsenal, officials military and civil, non-commissioned officers and military artificers, civilian foremen, workmen and laborers, with the clerks and writers necessary for the office work of the establishments. In the manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping part, good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores. In England the Royal Arsenal (also known as the Woolwich Arsenal), manufactured and stored the requirements of the army and navy. The London Football (soccer) football club Arsenal F.C. was named after this establishment. Category:Ammunition Category:Arabic words de:Arsenal (Lager) fr:Arsenal it:Arsenale nl:Arsenaal ja:工廠 pl:Arsenał pt:Arsenal sl:Arzenal

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