cannonball
Illustration — Various types of round shot made from stone, iron and lead found on board the 16th-century carrack Mary Rose • Illustration — Mons Meg with its 20 in, cannonballs • Illustration — Cannonball equipped with winglets for rifled cannons, c. 1860 A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot.
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- ammunition, spherical body and kinetic energy weapon.
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- stone and Metal.
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Illustration — Various types of round shot made from stone, iron and lead found on board the 16th-century carrack Mary Rose • Illustration — Mons Meg with its 20 in, cannonballs • Illustration — Cannonball equipped with winglets for rifled cannons, c. 1860 A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot.
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chain shot
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heated shot
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File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume One, The Opening Battles . The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 99.
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Materials recorded for it include stone and Metal. Its recorded use is artillery. Catalogue entries for arms and armour state maker, marks, mechanism and, where relevant, licensing. VALÉORINE records this subject so that lots referring to it can be described consistently.
This is a photo of public art indexed in a public art catalogue of Vienna (Austria) under the number: 95960 (commons, de).
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- 1.Maier, Charles S. Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500. Harvard University Press. 2016. 978-0674059788.
- 2.Martello, Robert. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise. Johns Hopkins University Press. 174. 2010. 978-0801897580.
- 3.Watt, James. The injuries of four centuries of naval warfare. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 57. 1. 8. 1975.
- 4.Chisolm, John Julian. A Manual of Military Surgery, for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate States Army; with Explanatory Plates of all Useful Operations. Evans and Cogswell. 354–356. 1864.
- 5.Musée de la Marine, Paris.
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