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Animation of a bursting shrapnel shell Setting a time fuse (left) and loading a shell into a gun. Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions that carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike targets individually.
Shrapnel (American punk band), an American punk band; Shrapnel (Welsh punk band), a 1981–1988 musical group; Shrapnel Records, music label; Shrapnel, a.k.a. Metal Church, an American heavy metal band "Shrapnel", a song on the Atmosphere album God Loves Ugly
Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, the ninth child of Zachariah Shrapnel and his wife Lydia. [1]In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air.
The term "shrapnel" is commonly, although incorrectly from a technical standpoint, used to refer to fragments produced by any explosive weapon. However, the shrapnel shell, named for Major General Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery, predates the modern high-explosive shell and operates by an entirely different process. [2]
Typical World War I shrapnel round: 1 shell bursting charge 2 bullets 3 nose fuze 4 central ignition tube 5 resin matrix 6 thin steel shell wall 7 cartridge case 8 propellant. Shrapnel shells are an anti-personnel munition which delivered large numbers of bullets at ranges far greater than rifles or machine guns could attain – up to 6,500 ...
Shrapnel was an American punk and power pop band formed in Red Bank, New Jersey [1] in the late-1970s, when its members were still teenagers. History.
Shrapnel (Mark Scheffer) is a supervillain appearing in media published by DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of the Outsiders and the Doom Patrol. Shrapnel has appeared in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and the second season of Arrow , voiced by Greg Ellis in the former and portrayed by Sean Maher in the latter.
The shrapnel shell was invented by Henry Shrapnel of the British Army in about 1780 to increase the effectiveness of canister shot. It was used in the later Napoleonic wars and stayed in use until superseded in Artillery of World War I. Modern shells, though sometimes called "shrapnel shells", actually produce fragments and splinters, not ...