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  2. Heilongjiang hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon [1] manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm. [2] It weighs 3.55 kg (7.83 pounds) and is 34 centimeters (13.4 inches) long.

  3. Huochong - Wikipedia

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    The oldest confirmed metal huochong, also the first cannon, is a bronze hand cannon bearing an inscription dating it to 1298 (see Xanadu gun). [ 2 ] By the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) two types of huochong were in use.

  4. Handgun - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known bronze barrel handgun is the Heilongjiang hand cannon in 1288. [9] It is 34cm (13.4 inches) long without a handle and weighs 3.55 kg (7.83 pounds). The diameter of the powder chamber is 6.6cm (2.6 inches) [10] while the diameter of the interior at the end of the barrel is 2.5cm (1.0 inch). [11]

  5. Blast from the past: Researchers discover oldest US gun ...

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    The bronze cannon, or wall gun, is associated with the first European expedition of the Southwest, and was found on the floor of a Spanish stone-and-adobe building in southern Arizona, near the ...

  6. Cannons abandoned by doomed Spanish expedition are thought to ...

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    Archaeologists working in Arizona have discovered what appear to be the oldest firearms ever found in the continental United States: two cannons abandoned by a Spanish expeditionary force that was ...

  7. Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The world's earliest known hand cannon is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated 1288, which was found in Mongol-held Manchuria. [4] In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair , one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could "pierce the heart or belly when it ...

  8. Hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    Bronze cannon with inscription dated the 3rd year of the Zhiyuan era (1332) of the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368); discovered in Beijing in 1935. The earliest artistic depiction of what might be a hand cannon—a rock sculpture found among the Dazu Rock Carvings—is dated to 1128, much earlier than any recorded or precisely dated archaeological samples, so it is possible that the concept of a ...

  9. History of cannons - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving gun bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, dated to 1298. [12] Other specimens have been dated to even earlier periods, such as the Wuwei Bronze Cannon, to 1227, and the Heilongjiang hand cannon, to 1288. However, they contain no inscriptions.