artillery gun

artillery gun is an artillery weapon.

Also recorded as ordnance.

Contents

Catalogued works

6 works under this name are catalogued by Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1559 to 2008.

A treatise on gun-powder; a treatise on fire-arms; and a treatise on the service of artillery in time of war translated from the Italian of Alessandro Vittorio Papacino D'Antoni, Major General in the Sardinian Army, and Chief Director of the Royal Military Academies of Artillery and Fortification at Turin. By Captain Thomson, of The Royal Regiment of Artillery., dated 1789, held by Wellcome Collection. The Infantry cannot do with a gun less: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918, dated [2008], held by Wellcome Collection. Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a radial overhead crane for carrying heavy artillery pieces in different sectors of the factory. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917., dated 1917, held by Wellcome Collection. Artillery transport by elephants and men along the mountain road to Mulkera, Himachal Pradesh. Coloured lithograph after Alexander Jack, c.1847., dated [1847], held by Wellcome Collection. Artillery: 16th cent., dated 1559, held by Wellcome Collection. Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791., dated 5 March 1791, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 27 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Gun Cotton for Artillery, Scientific American, 1863. Single Gun, Multiple Round, Time-on-Target Capability for Advanced Towed Cannon Artillery., 1995. Numerical Analysis of Electrorheological Fluid Based Recoil System for Artillery Gun., 2025. IBRNA³: An Intelligent Algorithmic Framework for Real-Time Gun Barrel Resonance Neutralization in Artillery Systems, 2025. Simulation Studies for MRSI of Artillery Gun Systems, 30th International Symposium on Ballistics, 2017. Studying tribotechnical characteristics of plain bearings of artillery pieces, Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион:Технические науки, 2023. Influence of hydraulic brakes typical parameters on the process of recoiling mass breaking, Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 1998. University proceedings. Volga region. Technical sciences, Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион:Технические науки, 2024. SOME ASPECTS OF ANTIFRICTION COATINGS APPLICATION EFFICIENCY BY MEANS OF FINISHING NONABRASIVE ANTIFRICTION TREATMENT, Записки Горного института, 2019. Measuring Stand for Determining the Dynamic Characteristics of the Selected Parameters of Anti-Aircraft Artillery System, Problemy Mechatroniki, 2014. ANALYSIS OF VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECTILE-BARREL COUPLING SYSTEM CONSIDERING THE INITIAL DEFLECTION OF THE BARREL, Jixie qiangdu, 2019. Initial temperature influence on the powder speed combustion in the high pressure range, Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 1997. Preparation of Ta/Nb coatings on the inner surface of 30 mm barrels by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering, Results in Surfaces and Interfaces, 2025.

Digitised editions and texts

6 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by DataCite (Association de la Revue Militaire Suisse), DataCite (Zenodo), DataCite (Unpublished), DataCite (University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL)) and DataCite (StudNet).

L'armée suisse sélectionne l'AGM Artillery Gun Module sur Piranha IV (2025) — DataCite (Association de la Revue Militaire Suisse). Gun Thing (2021) — DataCite (Zenodo). GERMAN MAIN FIELD ARTILLERY GUN WAS OUTRANGED BY BOTH BRITISH AND USSR FIELD ARTILLERY GUNS FOR MOST PART OF SECOND WORLD WAR (2022) — DataCite (Unpublished). TANK TRAINING IN THE DESERT WITH ARTILLERY GUN PIT IN FOREGROUND-1986 NOVEMBER (1986) — DataCite (Unpublished). View of the mole at Zeebrugge showing the S.S. Brussels and the lighthouse, ca.1915 (2012) — DataCite (University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL)). ИЗНОС КАНАЛА СТВОЛА И ПОВЫШЕНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ ИМПУЛЬСНЫХ ТЕПЛОВЫХ МАШИН (2020) — DataCite (StudNet).

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 24 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)) and 7 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 8 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1559Artillery: 16th cent. (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1789A treatise on gun-powder; a treatise on fire-arms; and a treatise on the service of artillery in time of war translated from the Italian of Alessandro Vittorio Papacino D'Antoni, Major General in the Sardinian Army, and Chief Director of the Royal Military Academies of Artillery and Fortification at Turin. By Captain Thomson, of The Royal Regiment of Artillery. (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1791Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1847Artillery transport by elephants and men along the mountain road to Mulkera, Himachal Pradesh. Coloured lithograph after Alexander Jack, c.1847. (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1917Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a radial overhead crane for carrying heavy artillery pieces in different sectors of the factory. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917. (Wellcome Collection).
  6. 1986TANK TRAINING IN THE DESERT WITH ARTILLERY GUN PIT IN FOREGROUND-1986 NOVEMBER digitised by DataCite (Unpublished).
  7. 2008The Infantry cannot do with a gun less: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918 (Wellcome Collection).
  8. 2012View of the mole at Zeebrugge showing the S.S. Brussels and the lighthouse, ca.1915 digitised by DataCite (University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL)).
  9. 2020ИЗНОС КАНАЛА СТВОЛА И ПОВЫШЕНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ ИМПУЛЬСНЫХ ТЕПЛОВЫХ МАШИН digitised by DataCite (StudNet).
  10. 2021Gun Thing digitised by DataCite (Zenodo).
  11. 2022GERMAN MAIN FIELD ARTILLERY GUN WAS OUTRANGED BY BOTH BRITISH AND USSR FIELD ARTILLERY GUNS FOR MOST PART OF SECOND WORLD WAR digitised by DataCite (Unpublished).
  12. 2025L'armée suisse sélectionne l'AGM Artillery Gun Module sur Piranha IV digitised by DataCite (Association de la Revue Militaire Suisse).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “artillery gun”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Gun Cotton for Artillery, Scientific American, 1863

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    IBRNA³: An Intelligent Algorithmic Framework for Real-Time Gun Barrel Resonance Neutralization in Artillery Systems, 2025

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  4. 4.

    Numerical Analysis of Electrorheological Fluid Based Recoil System for Artillery Gun., 2025

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  5. 5.

    Simulation Studies for MRSI of Artillery Gun Systems, 30th International Symposium on Ballistics, 2017

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  6. 6.

    Single Gun, Multiple Round, Time-on-Target Capability for Advanced Towed Cannon Artillery., 1995

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 8 articles naming artillery gun.

    open access index · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 27 works naming artillery gun.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1246258: artillery gun

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  10. 10.

    “Artillery gun”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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