Sujet

The Gun and its Development, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Gun and its Development, 1881. 'Semi-portable cannon, on forked rest (14th century); Early matchlock-gun; The "Holy-Water Sprinkler" (mace, combined with four pistol-barrels), 15th century; Spanish arquebusier, 16th century; Ornamented wheel-lock musket (Munich, 17th century); Nock's seven-barrelled carbine, 1807...A handsome volume bearing this title, with the addition of "Notes on Shooting," by Mr. W. W. Greener, of Birmingham, gun manufacturer, has been published by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin...As an exercise and mere amusement, apart from the killing of game or soldierly training for warlike service, the use of fire-arms has greater fascination, after all, than the practice of archery; the more so from the marvellous scientific improvements and beautiful mechanism introduced within the past thirty years. Even to persons who do not shoot, the explanation of these matters is an agreeable study, and it is an important portion of the industrial history of our age'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_300

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

32,6Mo (1,0Mo) / 31,7cm x 25,7cm / 3745 x 3039 (300dpi)

Mots clés

technology arts science art British firearm weapon weapons gun guns pistol war cannon century Britain portable newspapers press print concept invention B&W warfare 17th century engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry 14th century 16th century armaments Fourteenth Century nineteenth century sixteenth century seventeenth century 15th century The Print Collector ballistics carbine fifteenth century Illustrated London News matchlock musket wood engraving ILN arquebus newspaper Unknown William 19th-century The Illustrated London News William Greener Greener