when was the cartridge type artillry shell invented and used as opposed to the cannon ball?
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The cartridge, containing the propellant and a shell in one unit, was originally design for the Gattlin gun in about 1860.  This type of ammunition was experimented with for ordnance (the correct generic name for artillery pieces) as soon as the breech loading models were designed.  They did not become common until World War I.  Prior to World War II the cartridges were almost always made of brass.  Steel was used later.
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not all that sure, but in 1950 the british battleship Vanguard fired an eight inch reinforced base shell from a 15" gun using a double sabot and achieved a muzzle velocity of 4630 fps and a carry range of 37 nautical miles!..
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Here are two slightly different versions:\n\nhttp://www.imagolfer.com/images/bullet.gif\nhttp://www.imagolfer.com/images/bullet2.gif
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try www.wildimports.com   They have what you are looking for.  They cost a few bucks, but are actually quite good prices for the quality you are getting.  I LOVE cannons!  Get one!  Try the mountain howizter.....\n\nIf you don't want to spend quite that much money, you can always find a Coehorn mortar.  They make them in golf ball size or beer can size.  Put a charge of black powder in one of those babies and it'll rattle the mountainside!  They are fun too and you can get a decent quality mortar for a few hundred bucks.
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The first one was called the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer," and it was produced by the gunmakers E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, NY from 1874-1878. It was not a great success (not more than 5,000 were sold), but it founded a worldwide industry, and it brought mechanization to dreary, time-consuming office work.
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Lewis Waterman in 1884\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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The T-34/76 Millimeter. It was the first to include sloped armour to deflect shells. Easily mass produced compared to the german tanks.\n\nLater the T-34/88. The same, but incorporated an 88 millimeter gun making it able to break through any armour of the day.
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Colt 1911 is my favorite because the designs is so good its been virtually unchanged for 95 years. Its one of the most reliable guns ever. It has excellent stopping power. always gets the job done and is just fun as hell to shoot
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The first Official Patent:\nJohn Ruggles of Thompsonvill, Maine\nU.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)\nPatent Nbr 1, granted July 13, 1826\nLocomotive Steam Engine.\n\nGo to http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm and enter patent nbr '1'.  You'll have to have Quicktime loaded to view the original image of this patent.
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Geez... the history of the gun.... Let's see... Well, it was invented not so long after the introduction of black powder... man this will take waaaay too long and I don't have that much time... I suggest you watch the History Channel... they have a great series on the history of the gun... \nand it "might" be any age... geez
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castal artillery? Or coastal artillery?\n\nNever heard of castal artillery but field artillery is the portable guns deployed in support of infantry, usually up to 155mm in caliber, they can be called up to break up attacks, fire smoke to mark positions and provide cover, or soften up defensive positions before an attack. Field Artillery can be towed or self propelled
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The muzzle velocity of the paint ball gun is higher. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity
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Johann Vaaler invented the first paperclip.  It was patented in 1901.  Similar designs  were created by William Middlebrook and Cornelius Brosnan.
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G'day Wende H,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nFull metal jacket bullets were acceptable under the Hague Convention of 1899. They were generally used during World War 2.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference.\n\nRegards
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The modern ball point pen was invented in 1938 by the Argentine-Hungarian journalist László Bíró. In the 1930s Bíró was working as the editor of a small newspaper. Bíró was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore his pages. Bíró had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró—with the help of his brother George, a chemist—began to work on designing new types of pens. Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball bearing in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June, 1938.
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the answer is in the army files of every nation that ever had a war.\nmachine guns spit out bullets very fast. Or I suspect the old Tommy gun in the 20s' was the one. Gangsters perhaps in Chicago.\n\ngl
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A Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938. Biro had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. The thicker ink would not flow from a regular pen nib and Biro had to devise a new type of point. He did so by fitting his pen with a tiny ball bearing in its tip. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper.