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Armstrong gun deployed by Japan during the Boshin War (1868–69).. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England beginning in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich.
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, ... He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Armstrong was knighted in 1859 after giving his gun patents to the ...
The Armstrong RBL 7-inch gun, also known as the 110-pounder, [4] was a heavy caliber Armstrong gun, an early type of rifled breechloader.. William Armstrong's innovative combination of a rifled built-up gun with breechloading had proven suitable for small cannon.
The gun was designed by British engineer-turned-artillery manufacturer Sir William Armstrong who is often regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. The Armstrong firm, one of the key artillery companies in the mid-to-late 19th century, distributed weapons throughout the British colonial military and Armstrong was knighted for his artillery ...
The Armstrong gun was a pivotal development for modern artillery as the first practical rifled breech loader. Pictured, deployed by Japan during the Boshin War (1868–69). Whatever obturation that was achieved relied on manual labour rather than the power of the gun's firing, and was hence both uncertain, based on an unsound principle and ...
The cynical attitude towards recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814; [165] however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than "food for powder" was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in ...
In 1859 the United Kingdom adopted rifled breechloading guns, the so called Armstrong guns, designed by William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. Armstrong then became engineer of rifled ordnance. [3] The Armstrong guns would be produced at the Royal Works at Woolwich as well as at the new Elswick Ordnance Company founded in Newcastle on 1 ...
The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) [6] was a British coastal defense gun and is the world's largest black powder cannon. It was a 17.72-inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong.