- Ten Barrel Gatling gun at high elevation
- Nordenfeldt Five Barrel Rifle Calibre Machine Gun mounted on ships top
- Nordenfeldt Quick-Firing Six Pounder Shell Gun
- Hotchkiss six pounder rapid firing non recoil Shell Gun
- Ten Barrel Gatling Gun at low angle of depression for searching Ravines
- 3 inch Rapid Fire Gun
3 inch Rapid Fire Gun - 10 barrel Gatling Machine gun
- Nordenfeldt Four Barrel 1 inch anti-torpedo boat machine gun
- 5 inch rapid fire
5 inch rapid fire - 3 inch R.F. Gun
3 inch R.F. Gun - Earliest form of Hand Gun
- Elswick Improved six barrel Gatling Machine Gun
- United States Carriage model of 1896
United States Carriage model of 1896 - Latest model 12inch disappearing carriage and gun
United States Carriage model of 1896 - Chinese Field piece Peiho 1860
- Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon for shell fire
- Early part of 15th Century
- Catapulta.
- Ancient Screw piece
- Machine for throwing stones
- Bombard and Carriage
- General Information - M102 Howitzer
- Machine for throwing darts
- Machine for throwing stones 3
- Mode of Mounting (2)
- Crossbow
- Long Serpentine of Wrought Iron
- Onager (slung)
- Detail of Balista springs
- Balista
- Method of obtaining elevation
- Machine for throwing stones 2
- Balista
- Mons Meg
- Mode of mounting
- Giorgio Martini,
- Musketeer
- Crossbow 2
- Pierrier or Paterera
- Quarrels
- Trepied
- Onager (Unslung)
- Small chambered Cannon
- 4.7 inch Q.F. (Pedestal Mount.)
4.7 inch Q.F. (Pedestal Mount.) - 12 Inch Disappearing
12 Inch Disappearing - Hand or Arrow Rocket
- Gun and Querrel
- 12 inch barbette - non-disappearing
12 inch barbette - non-disappearing - Catapult
The catapult was the howitzer, or mortar, of its day and could throw a hundred-pound stone 600 yards in a high arc to strike the enemy behind his wall or batter down his defenses. "In the middle of the ropes a wooden arm rises like a chariot pole," wrote the historian Marcellinus. "At the top of the arm hangs a sling. When battle is commenced, a round stone is set in the sling. Four soldiers on each side of the engine wind the arm down until it is almost level with the ground. When the arm is set free, it springs up and hurls the stone forth from its sling." In early times the weapon was called a "scorpion," for like this dreaded insect it bore its "sting" erect. - 4.7 inch 120 mm q.f. Gun on centre pivot pedestal mounting
4.7 inch 120 mm q.f. Gun on centre pivot pedestal mounting - Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in)
- Gatling Gun on Field Carriage
Gatling Gun on Field Carriage These weapons are, as part of the regular equipment of armies, quite modern, though the idea of binding together a quantity of barrels and then discharging them at once, or with great rapidity one after another, is not altogether novel. Sometimes, instead of a number of barrels, one only is required, and the cartridges are discharged from short barrels or chambers which are brought in turn into position with the longer one. - Cart of War
- Nordenfelt-Palmcrantz Gun mounted on Ship's Bulwark
Nordenfelt-Palmcrantz Gun mounted on Ship's Bulwark Machine guns have succeeded one another with extraordinary rapidity, and a gun seems only to be adopted in order to be superseded. Thus we have had during the last few years a series of these weapons bearing the names of Gatling, Gardner, Nordenfelt, and Maxim, - 12 Inch Disappearing - raised
12 Inch Disappearing - raised - Hooped Cannon in wooden bed
- A Slinger
- A Cross bow man and Slinger
- Bow unstrung
The Scythian bow unstrung. - Rifle-calibre Maxim Gun
Rifle-calibre Maxim Gun Its rate of firing—770 shots a minute—is at least three times as rapid as that of any other machine gun.
It has only a single barrel, which, when the shot is fired, recoils a distance of three-quarters of an inch on the other parts of the gun.
This recoil sets moving the machinery which automatically keeps up a continuous fire at the extraordinary rate of 12 rounds a second.
Each recoil of the barrel has therefore to perform the necessary functions of extracting and ejecting the empty cartridge,
or bringing up the next full one and placing it in its proper position in the barrel, of cocking the hammer, and pulling the trigger.
As long as the firing continues, these functions are repeated round after round in succession.
The barrel is provided with a water jacket, to prevent excessive heating;
and is so mounted that it can be raised or lowered or set at any angle, or turned horizontally to the left or to the right.
The bore is adapted to the present size of cartridges; and the maximum range is eighteen hundred yards.
The gun can therefore be made to sweep a circle upwards of a mile in radius.