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Architonnerre – Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century steam cannon, which he attributed to Archimedes; William Murdoch – invented a steam cannon; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina – site where an experimental steam cannon was built at the turn of the 20th century; Winans Steam Gun – steam-powered centrifugal gun built during the American ...
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Steam would be allowed to escape from the boiler through an opening with a screwed thread so there would be no buildup of pressure. To fire the cannon a cap would be screwed tightly into the boiler opening, triggering an immediate buildup of steam pressure in the boiler. This would force the boiling water along the syphon tube into the cannon's ...
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A Strange Engine of War: The "Winans" Steam Gun and Maryland in the Civil War. Baltimore: Chesapeake Book Company. US patent 24,031, William Joslin, "Improvement in Centrifugal Guns", issued 1859-5-17 US patent 24,997, Charles S. Dickinson, "Improvement in Centrifugal Guns", issued 1859-8-9 "The Baltimore Steam Battery". Scientific American.
A centrifugal gun is a type of rapid-fire projectile accelerator, like a machine gun but operating on a different principle. [1] Centrifugal guns use a rapidly rotating disc to impart energy to the projectiles, gaining kinetic energy from steam, electricity or other engine source rather than gunpowder. The centrifugal gun was one of a number or ...
The STK 50 MG, formerly known as the CIS 50MG, [a] is a gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed heavy machine gun developed and manufactured by Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now ST Kinetics) in the late 1980s, in response to a request by the Singaporean Defence Ministry to replace the 12.7mm Browning M2HB machine guns then in ubiquitous service with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).