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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.
One of the oldest surviving weapons of this type is the "Loshult gun", a 10 kg (22 lb) Swedish example from the mid-14th century. In 1999, a group of British and Danish researchers made a replica of the gun and tested it using four period-accurate mixes of gunpowder, firing both 1.88 kg (4.1 lb) arrows and 184 g (6.5 oz) lead balls with 50 g (1 ...
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 ]
A bronze cannon, also known as a wall gun, discovered in Arizona is one that researchers believe to be the "oldest firearm ever found within the continental USA."
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 ...
The oldest surviving gun, a hand cannon made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time. [28]
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.
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