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...
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...
Wrought-iron breech-loading gun and carriage, from the 'Mary Rose' warship, 1542. Drawing by J B Northam, executed 1929, showing a wrought-iron...
Sketch taken from a notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci . Da Vinci was the most outstanding Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer of the...
Photograph of a battery of artillery, taken by Felice Beato during the Indian Mutiny or Great Sepoy Rebellion . The breech-loading 12-pounder rifled...
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...
Model . From 1881 onwards, steel replaced iron in the construction of hulls of British warships. The 'Magicienne', a cruiser, was provided with a...
Wood engraving from 'The Romance of Industry and Invention�, by Robert Cochrane, London, 1899. In 1840, William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of...
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...
Italian Howitzer 280mm breech-loading station in Edolo, at the end of World War I, photograph, Italy, Edolo, November 1918.
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...
Pendennis Castle, c1911, . Reconstruction of Half Moon Battery. Loading a 6-inch breech gun. Reconstruction drawing. Pendennis Castle was an...
Demonstration of the proper technique for loading a shell into the breech-loading cannon designed by Boyteaux and Dangerfield. Although many were...
Double-barrelled Dragonneau, used at the siege of Santander in 1511. A breech loading artillery piece.
French soldier loading his breech-loading flintlock rifle. Napoleonic wars, 19th century. Historical reenactment.
French soldiers firing breech-loading flintlock rifles, Italian campaign, 1796-1797. Napoleonic wars, 18th century. Historical reenactment.
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...
Rappahannock Forge Flintlock, 1775. 2. North and Cheney Flintlock. 3. Henry Deringer Flintlock, army Type. 4. U. S. Harper's Ferry Flintlock, 1804....
Confederate Carbines: 1)Cook Carbine caliber .58, barrel 24", overall length 40". 2)Richmond Carbine, 1863. 3)Tallassee Carbine caliber .58, barrel...
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...
William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, 1874. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...
William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1880. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...
William George Armstrong , British industrialist, inventor and scientist, c1890. Armstrong established Elswick Engine Works at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in...
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...
Close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub.
Close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub.
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.
Inch naval cannon mounted on a turntable, with protective shields and automatic opening-closing breech loading mechanism, illustration, Italy, 20th...
Illustration of Mitrailleuse and a dragonneau, examples of early breech-loading weapons from the Medieval Period.
Illustrations depicting the history of breech-loading guns including the Mitrailleuse and the dragonneau from the Medieval Period.
Engraving depicting the breech-loading of an artillery tube at the Krupp Family Steel Works, or Friedrich Krupp AG, Essen, Germany, circa 1880-1890.
Bronze powder chambers from early breech-loading guns. 16th century. Their rear locking lug removed to being set up in a vertical position. This...
Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun, dated 1866, Paris, French, Paris, Steel, wood , gold, L. 44 1/8 in. , Firearms-Guns-Wheellock, The...
Illustration shows a jacket being fitted onto a 6 inch breech loading rifle tube, part of artillery pieces used by the US Navy. The illustration...
Illustration shows the new 6 inch breech loading rifled artillery piece deployed on the US Navy's warships. The illustration appeared in the 1888...
School of artillery Officer course at ***** loading 18 pounder of death in the breech of a field gun during a practice shoot. August 17, 1940. .
