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Beginning around 700 A. D., scientists and inventors in Ancient China developed different grades of gunpowder and different types of firearms, including single-shot smooth-bore fire lances, multi-barreled guns, multiple-launch artillery rockets and the first cannon in the world made from cast bronze.
Naval weapon systems have closely followed the development in land weapons, developing from direct enemy hull ramming, to use of basic mechanical projectiles, smooth-bore cannon ball firing guns, breach-loading rifled guns firing shells, naval mine layers, torpedo-armed submarines, aircraft carriers, and finally warships armed with fire control directed weapons, including missiles and remotely piloted devices.
More than 50 smooth-bore cannon were also mounted.
A rifled breech loader ( RBL ) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smooth-bore cannon and rifled muzzle loader ( RML ) which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel and is loaded from the breech at the rear of the gun.
He was secretary of the British government select committee on the replacement of smooth-bore cannon with rifled artillery and carried out research on the subject.
At beginning of the Spanish-American War, Fort Morgan also received eight 10-inch smooth-bore muzzle-loading cannon, converted to 8 " rifles with the insertion of a barrel sleeve.

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6 ) A short-barreled shotgun which came from the factory with a pistol grip and no buttstock is categorized as an AOW ( smooth-bore pistol ) rather than a Short Barrel Shotgun ( SBS ), because the Gun Control Act describes a shotgun as, “… designed or redesigned to be fired from the shoulder …”
Also, fin-stabilised munitions fired from a smooth-bore, which do not rely upon the spin imparted by a rifled-bore for greater accuracy, do not have the drawback of veering in the direction of the spin.
Permission in writing from the territorial government was needed to possess any firearm ( other than a smooth-bore shotgun ), and also ammunition.
The resulting legislation raised the minimum age for buying a firearm or airgun from 14 to 17, extended controls to shotguns and other smooth-bore weapons with barrels shorter than ( later raised by the Firearms Act 1968 to ), transferred certificates for machine guns to military oversight, regulated gun dealers, and granted chief constables the power to add conditions to individual firearms certificates.
* two 32-pound smooth-bore breech-loading guns from the 1880s, designed to fire case shot
* four replica 32-pound smooth-bore breech-loading guns dating from 1997
* Solid Stream: A fire-fighting water stream emitted from a smooth-bore nozzle.
On the next morning, July 1, 1887, a shipment of arms was discovered ( although later found to be smooth-bore hunting guns used to scare bird from farmers ' fields ).

smooth-bore and century
Prior to the late 19th century, firearms were often cumbersome muskets: muzzle-loading, smooth-bore, single shot weapons with flint-lock mechanisms.

cast-iron and cannon
Written later around 1350 in the Huo Long Jing, this manuscript of Jiao Yu recorded an earlier Song-era cast-iron cannon known as the ' flying-cloud thunderclap eruptor ' ( fei yun pi-li pao ).
The pivotal event was the opening of the Carron Iron Works to the east of Stenhousemuir, in 1759, which produced a range of cast-iron goods and the Carronade, a naval cannon.

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The first applications of the steam locomotive were on wagon or plate ways ( as they were then often called from the cast-iron plates used ).
Pork drippings from frying sausage, bacon, and other types of pan-fried pork are typically collected and used for making gravy and in greasing cast-iron cookware.
However, carbon steel woks tend to be more difficult to season than those made of cast-iron (' seasoning ', or carbonizing the cooking surface of a wok, is required to prevent foods from sticking, as well as removing metallic tastes and odors ).
Because of this, food cooked in a cast-iron wok must be promptly removed from the wok as soon as it is done to prevent overcooking.
During the 1880s, when both the old cast-iron and modern forged-steel shrapnel shell designs were in British service, British ordnance manuals referred to the older cast-iron design as " Boxer shrapnel ", apparently to differentiate it from the modern steel design.
shot from a 12-pounder cast-iron gun.
The process involved drawing wires from a constant-tension supply, and pulling loops of these wires from one anchorage to the other, passing a 500-tonne cast-iron saddle on top of each bridge tower seating the cable.
The cast-iron lighthouse was brought from Wellfleet Harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1925.
At the same time the existing concrete street lights were replaced with a quainter alternative which resemble cast-iron gas lamps from the late 19th century.
The carillon ’ s 48 bronze bells, cast-iron clappers and keyboard were purchased from and installed by Royal Eijsbouts, a prestigious bell making firm from the Netherlands.
A total of 111 specimens of early Avar-age, apple shaped, cast-iron stirrups with elongated suspension loop and flat, slightly inward bent tread had been excavated from 55 burial sites in Hungary and surrounding regions by 2005.
As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name " Flatiron " derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
Initially, The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was the only company producing linecasting machines, but around 1914 a linecasting machine would be produced by the competition-The Intertype Company-using the same matrices as the Linotype, only where Mergenthaler prided themselves on intricately formed cast-iron parts on their machine, Intertype machined many of their similar parts from steel and aluminum.
While it was long thought that the Chinese had developed the blast furnace and cast iron as their first method of iron production, Donald Wagner ( the author of the above referenced study ) has published a more recent paper that supersedes some of the statements in the earlier work ; the newer paper still places the date of the first cast-iron artifacts at the 4th and 5th centuries BC, but also provides evidence of earlier bloomery furnace use, which migrated in from the West during the beginning of the Chinese Bronze Age of the late Longshan culture ( 2000 BC ).
The shield prevented the newly dug tunnel from collapsing before it could be lined with cast-iron segments.
It was originally planned to dismantle the pierhead in stages starting from October 1985 and just as work was getting underway the structure caught fire and two stranded workmen had to be rescued by the town's lifeboat and after the fire burned itself out only the cast-iron stanchions were left and these were removed in January 1986 on one of the lowest tides of that year.
Some of the 30 varieties of palms are in the ground, but most are in large wooden boxes above ground .< ref name =" latimes02152008 "> Directly in front of the new entrance to LACMA on Wilshire Boulevard is Chris Burden's Urban Light ( 2008 ), an orderly, multi-tiered installation of 202 antique cast-iron street lights from various cities in and around the Los Angeles area.
The hangar also contains items collected from prior adventures, such as a cast-iron bathtub with an outboard motor fixed to one end, and is protected by a state-of-the-art security system.
Harry Ives had a heated professional relationship with Lionel founder Joshua Lionel Cowen, in which they traded lawsuits and, starting in 1915, Lionel criticized the quality of Ives ' offerings in print advertisements, calling its cars flimsy and showing a cast-iron Ives locomotive shattering into 15 pieces when dropped from a table, while a Lionel locomotive dropped from the same height would survive with only dents.
In the 1960s, the original storefronts were rediscovered and many architectural features from a century earlier had survived intact including decorative brickwork, granite archways, ornate marble, cast-iron pilasters, hand-carved wooden posts, and gas street lamps.

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where Windmill Lane, the railway and the Grand Union Canal all intersect – the canal being carried over the railway line cutting below in a cast-iron trough and a new cast-iron road-bridge going over both.

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< center > 1870s cast-iron British ordnance terms # RML | RML 16-pounder " Boxer " shrapnel shell showing limited space for bullets
Rear Admiral Dahlgren, onboard the USS Pawnee ( 1859 ) | USS Pawnee, beside a 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle ( one of his bottle-shaped cast-iron cannons ), c. 1864.
The station frontage, with to the right a grade II Listed building | listed cast-iron urinal.
Image: St Michael's Interior Aigburth. jpg | Interior showing cast-iron framework
File: 326-330 East 18th townhouses. jpg | Italianate townhouses on East 18th Street ( 1853 ), with cast-iron verandas reminiscent of the French Quarter of New Orleans.

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