Artillery - Breech-Loading, Gunnery, Cannons | Britannica
Artillery - Breech-Loading, Gunnery, Cannons: In 1854 William Armstrong, an English hydraulic engineer, designed an entirely new type of gun. Instead of simply boring out a solid piece of metal, Armstrong forged his barrel from wrought iron (later from steel).
The Krupp Horizontal Sliding-Wedge Breechblock
Alfred Krupp’s invention made sure breech-loading cannon were more dangerous to the enemy than the gunners.
The First Breech-Loader Artillery - Weapons and Warfare
2019年12月20日 · In 1450, at Formigny, two culverin cannon helped French forces break the formation of English archers during battle. Three years later, massed cannon and small firearms were a decisive factor on a battlefield for the first time, routing an …
EVOLUTION OF THE BREECHLOADER - U.S. National Park Service
2015年2月26日 · The experience of the Civil War had shown the need for such weapons, and at the close of the war the United States Government advertised for proposals for a breech-loading weapon - one that could be made by converting the vast supply of …
Sure Shot: Confederate Sharpshooters Left No Doubt the …
2017年8月8日 · A “Sharpshooter” Cannon. Whitworth’s obsession with precision led to his creation of an extremely accurate breech-loading 12-pounder rifled cannon of significantly advanced design for that era of mainly muzzle-loading cannons.
Whitworth Rifle - The Civil War in the East
The Whitworth Rifle was an advanced breech loading artillery piece imported by the Confederacy from England. It fired a 12 pound, 11 ounce, 2.75 inch projectile from a steel tube which used a hexagonal design rather than traditional rifling. The result …
Breech-loading | weapons technology | Britannica
In military technology: Wrought-iron breechloaders. Partly because of the difficulties of making a long, continuous barrel, and partly because of the relative ease of loading a powder charge into a short breechblock, gunsmiths soon learned to make cannon in which the barrel and powder chamber were separate. Since the….
Breech Loading Rifled Artillery - GlobalSecurity.org
2011年7月22日 · The breech loading gun, dates as far back as the discovery of cannon itself, and fourteen guns of that description were used by the English army at the siege of Orleans, in the year 1428. In...
Back to the Drawing Board: Rifled muzzle-loading artillery (RML)
2020年10月26日 · It had pioneered breech-loading rifled guns as early as 1861, when HMS Warrior was commissioned with 40- and 110-pdr Armstrong breech-loaders as part of her armament. But it was found they required very careful loading and could not be fired with charges as powerful as equivalent muzzle-loaders.
American Civil War Artillery – Rifled and Imported Cannon
2017年8月9日 · Whitworth designed various calibers of both muzzle- and breech loading artillery pieces, with both types sharing his unique rifling system. The bores of Whitworth cannons and small arms were precisely cut with distinctive spiraling hexagonal rifling that required a matching six-sided projectile.
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