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Breech Loading Flintlock Musket, United States, 1838. Artist John Hancock Hall.

Breech Loading Flintlock Musket

Gun crew swabbing out and loading a shell into the breech of a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun aboard HMS Iron Duke, an Iron Duke-class Dreadnought...

Guns with broke mouth, wrought iron guns, the stand on which the guns 3 and 4 are mounted, breech-loading gun, illustration from the magazine The...

Serviceman works beside 1887 UK-made Armstrong 5-inch breech-loading cannons outside the Armed Forces Museum in Taipei on October 20, 2009. Despite...

A serviceman works beside 1887 UK-made A

Wrought-iron breech-loading gun and carriage, from the 'Mary Rose' warship, 1542. Drawing by J B Northam, executed 1929, showing a wrought-iron...

Wrought-iron breech-loading gun and carriag

Sketch taken from a notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci . Da Vinci was the most outstanding Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer of the...

Breech loading gun and fire bombs.

Photograph of a battery of artillery, taken by Felice Beato during the Indian Mutiny or Great Sepoy Rebellion . The breech-loading 12-pounder rifled...

A battery of Armstrong cannon, 1858.

Watercolour painted by W Fred Mitchell in 1903, depicting HMS �Glasgow� at sea in 1861. This 3000-ton vessel was the fifth Royal Navy warship to bear...

HMS Glasgow, steam frigate, 1861.

Model . From 1881 onwards, steel replaced iron in the construction of hulls of British warships. The 'Magicienne', a cruiser, was provided with a...

HMS Magicienne, 1888.

Wood engraving from 'The Romance of Industry and Invention�, by Robert Cochrane, London, 1899. In 1840, William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of...

Sir William George Armstrong, British inventor and industrialist, c 1880.

Military cannon that could be loaded from the rear was a major advancement. It meant soldiers could load the gun without having to step in front of...

Brayton's Improved Breech-loading Cannon

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, Prussian artillery battery in action Coloured woodcut.

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

Italian Howitzer 280mm breech-loading station in Edolo, at the end of World War I, photograph, Italy, Edolo, November 1918.

Italian Howitzer

Italian Howitzer 280mm breech-loading, photograph, Italy, November 1918.

Italian Howitzer

Crewmen begin painting red, white and blue stripes onto the 4 breech-loading 15-inch Mk I gun barrels in the two forward A and B twin gun turrets of...

HMS Royal Sovereign

Pendennis Castle, c1911, . Reconstruction of Half Moon Battery. Loading a 6-inch breech gun. Reconstruction drawing. Pendennis Castle was an...

Pendennis Castle, c1911, (c1990-2010)

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Prussian artillery battery in actionColoured woodcut.

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

Demonstration of the proper technique for loading a shell into the breech-loading cannon designed by Boyteaux and Dangerfield. Although many were...

Early Breech-Loading Cannon

Young sailors, training on the HMS Ganges, placing a charge in the breech of a six inch gun.

Young Navy Sailors Loading Gun

Double-barrelled Dragonneau, used at the siege of Santander in 1511. A breech loading artillery piece.

Double-barrelled Dragonneau

French soldier loading his breech-loading flintlock rifle. Napoleonic wars, 19th century. Historical reenactment.

A French soldier...

French soldiers firing breech-loading flintlock rifles, Italian campaign, 1796-1797. Napoleonic wars, 18th century. Historical reenactment.

French soldiers...

Grenada: Close-up of United States soldiers loading a shell into the still smoking breech of a cannon during the United States invasion of the island...

Soldiers Loading Cannon

Rappahannock Forge Flintlock, 1775. 2. North and Cheney Flintlock. 3. Henry Deringer Flintlock, army Type. 4. U. S. Harper's Ferry Flintlock, 1804....

Display of Early Pistols

Confederate Carbines: 1)Cook Carbine caliber .58, barrel 24", overall length 40". 2)Richmond Carbine, 1863. 3)Tallassee Carbine caliber .58, barrel...

Four Confederate Carbines

Color lithograph depicting a Spanish soldier as he would have appeared in 1504, he is a rifleman and is shown reloading his breech-loading weapon, he...

Spanish Rifleman

Improved Breech-loading Gun.

Improved Breech-loading Gun

William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, 1874. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...

William George Armstrong (1810-1900), British industrialist, inventor and scientist, 1874.

William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1880. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...

William George Armstrong (1810-1900), British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1880.

William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1890. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...

William George Armstrong (1810-1900), British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1890.

The Duke And Duchess Of Teck At Southport: The Whitworth 9-Pounder Breech-Loading Rifled Field Gun.

The Duke And Duchess Of Teck At Southport: The Whitworth 9-Pounder Breech-Loadin

Close-up of a rare and valuable flintlock musket, the first breech-loading weapon ever to be used by the military. Invented by Major Patrick Ferguson...

Flintlock Rifle

Close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub.

Old Sporting Guns

Close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub.

Old Sporting Guns

Lord William George Armstrong , a Fellow of the Royal Society and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong breech-loading gun. Original...

Heavy breech-loading gun being lowered into its place on its carriage by a powerful steam crane at the Arsenal in Woolwich.

Breech-loading wheel lock pistol with an ivory handle, circa 1540.

Wheel Lock Pistol

Child reaches into the barrel of an 1861 British rifled breech-loading gun, found in 1992, 25 July 2000 at the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence,...

HONG KONG-MUSEUM-DEFENCE

Steel cruiser Chicago, flag-ship of Admiral J. G. Walker in the Mediterranean, 1890. 'The squadron of evolution sent by the United States Government...

The American Navy: Steel Cruiser Chicago...In The Mediterranean

New military armament and equipment, Royal Military Exhibition at Chelsea, 1890. 'Past 1882; Present, 1889; Future, ; Cartridge ; The New Army Rifle...

New Military Armament And Equipment

Trafalgar, steel armoured twin-screw turret-ship 940 tons, armed with four 67-ton guns, 1890. 'The gunnery trials of this new and powerful ship of...

H.M.S. Trafalgar

Leander, 1883. 'This new ship...under construction by Messrs. Napier and Sons, of Glasgow, is an example of a class in which some provision has been...

The Vasco da Gama, the only ironclad of the Portuguese government, 1890. '...the only armoured ship of war belonging to Portugal is the Vasco da...

The Vasco Da Gama

The War in the Transvaal: the Boers' method of fighting, 1881. 'A repulse, and temporary check, to the British military force in South Africa, with a...

The War In The Transvaal: The Boers Method Of Fighting

small iron breech-loading pivot gun, from the book the british army, 1868, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model, record date not stated - breech loading stock illustrations

Small iron breech-loading pivot gun, from the book The British Army, 1868, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model, Record date not stated

a breech-loading harquebus, hook rifle or arquebus, with movable chamber from 1537, from the book the british army, 1868, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated - breech loading stock illustrations

A breech-loading harquebus, hook rifle or arquebus, with movable chamber from 1537, from the book The British Army, 1868, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Launch of the German frigate Kaiser at Poplar, 1874. A '...powerful ship of war, built by Mr. J. D. Samuda, M.P., of the firm of Samuda Brothers, for...

Launch Of The German Frigate Kaiser At Poplar

Royal Navy sea cadets from the HMS Ganges Royal Navy Training Establishment practice load ammunition charges into the breech of a BL 6-inch Mk XII...

1938 HMS Ganges Royal Navy Training Establishment

Bringing up ship guns at the Buttes Montmartre, Paris, , 1871. The Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War. '...we present , an illustration, ...from the...

A French Battery Before Paris

Sketches from Ireland: opening casks of arms at the Dublin Steam-Ship Company's stores, North Wall, 1870. 'The subject of our Illustration is the...

Sketches From Ireland: Opening Casks Of Arms At The Dublin Steam-Ship Companys Stores...

Seizure of casks, with arms and ammunition, on board the Dublin steamer Windsor, 1870. 'The subject of our Illustration is the seizure of Fenian...

Seizure Of Casks

Ancient breech-loading gun found in British Guiana, 1870. 'The object shown in our Engraving is perhaps a relic of the Dutch expedition to Guiana in...

Ancient Breech-Loading Gun Found In British Guiana

The Martini-Henry Rifle, 1871. '...rifle in position for loading, with breech open . 2. Side view in position for firing - lever and breech closed....

The Martini-Henry Rifle

Small arms in the International Exhibition, 1862. '1. Sword presented by the Romans to the King of Italy; made by Castallani of Rome; 2. Sword-hilt...

Small Arms In The International Exhibition

Smith's locomotive battery, 1862. 'This is a design for a small one-gun battery intended to travel on common roads. It. Is the invention of F....

Smiths Locomotive Battery

Lord's patent loading-chamber, 1862. '...a most simple, durable, and inexpensive little contrivance recently invented and patented by Mr. W. B. Lord,...

Lords Patent Loading-Chamber

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading...

Manufacture Of The Armstrong Gun At Woolwich Arsenal: Coiling The Bars

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the bars previous to coiling, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely...

Manufacture Of The Armstrong Gun At Woolwich Arsenal: Drawing Down And Welding The...

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading...

Manufacture Of The Armstrong Gun At Woolwich Arsenal: Welding The Coil

Mr. Clay's new breech-loading gun, 1862. 'Mr. William Clay, of the Mersey Steel and Iron Works, Liverpool, has just invented a beautiful...

Mr. Clays New Breech-Loading Gun