17pdr gun mounted in the Archer SP
Sherman VC, Firefly - 17 pounder gun - 1944
The Parts of a Tank
Landing vehicle Tracked - 75 mm howitzer - 1944
Light Tank (Airborne) - M22 (Locust) - 37 mm gun - 1943
Medium Tank M4A1 - 76 mm gun -1944
Medium Tank M4A3 (Sherman IV) - 75 mm gun - 1942
Cruiser Tank, Comet - 77 mm gun - 1945
Cruiser Tank, Cromwell IV - 75 mm gun - 1943
Light Tank M3A1 (Stuart III) - 37 mm gun - 1942
Cutaway of tank 2
Cruiser Tank Mk VI - Crusader III - 6 pounder gun - 1942
Cruiser Tank Mk VI
Medium Tank M3A5 (Grant II) - 75 mm gun - 1941
Cruiser Tank Mk IV (A13 Mk II) - 2 pounder gun - 1939
Light Tank Mk VIA - Vickers machine guns - 1937
Light tank Mk VII, Tetrarch - 2 pounder gun - 1938-1940
Light Tank M3A3 (Stuart V) - 37 mm gun - 1942
Cutaway of tank
Light Tank M24 (Chaffee) - 75 mm gun - 1944
Frankford arsenal centrifugal fuses
Block swings free to right of gun
Breech in normal position—closed
36-inch searchlight and controller
An assembled mine
rotating crank-catch turned 90°
Frankford arsenal 21-second combination fuse
5 inch R.F. gun and breech mechanism
Frankford arsenal time percussion or combination fuse - Model 1900
the block released
36-inch searchlight and controller
boat-telephone
Crossbowman, about 1430
Map of Tank Operations, August–November, 1918
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
Ten Barrel Gatling Gun at low angle of depression for searching Ravines
Hotchkiss six pounder rapid firing non recoil Shell Gun
Crossbowmen practising at the target
Their dogs are retrieving the arrows, and were trained to do this without injuring the feathers of the missiles. From a translation into Italian of 'A History of the Peoples of the North,' by Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala. Printed at Venice, 1565.
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
Left view of 8-cm mortar, model 34
Different forms of crossbow bolts
I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, military bolts ; 6, bolt with tow soaked in oil for firing ships and houses ; 7, bolt for a slur bow ; 8, bolt for killing deer ; 9, 10, bolts for killing large birds ; 11, 12, bolts for killing game birds. The latter had not metal heads, and were blunt, so as not to damage the game.
3 inch R.F. Gun
3 inch R.F. Gun
Cross-section of shaving-stick grenade
Field Artillery
Breech of 7.5-cm infantry howitzer
Earliest form of Hand Gun
M.G. 42
Elswick Improved six barrel Gatling Machine Gun
United States Carriage model of 1896
United States Carriage model of 1896
M.G. 42, showing method of operating barrel extension
Model of Roman Catapult
Weight 1 1/2 tons , Range with a 6 lb stone ball, 300 yards 1 Twisting up the skein of cord by means of the winches 2 Winding down the arm 3 Releasing the arm when fully wound down
Hunters with crossbows
Latest model 12inch disappearing carriage and gun
United States Carriage model of 1896
Left side of 5-cm mortar
Chinese Field piece Peiho 1860