Yours in a White Wine Sauce!

Adventures in Victorian Science Fiction & Steampunk with ramblings about Aeronefs, Dirigibles, Land Ironclads, Anarchists, Dinosaur Hunting, Terranefs, Aquanefs, Mad Scientists, electric contraptions and steam conveyances. It may not make sense, but there will be claret and a nice cheese board at the end. Tally-Ho and "Vôtre dans une sauce au vin blanc!"

Showing posts with label Weapons. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Weapons. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 June 2016

Naval Hotchkiss revolving cannon

I have previously posted about the Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon ( here ) design along with pics of a nice museum piece. Yesterday I came a...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

RML 9 inch Armstrong Fortress Guns, Fort Gellibrand, Melbourne

These 9 inch (228mm) Rifled Muzzle Loading guns are 12 ton Armstrong Fortress guns (300 pounder guns - actual weight of shot was 256lb). ...

Friday, 1 January 2016

Nordenfelt Gun

A very Happy New Year to one and all! As the next instalment in my weaponry posts, here are some snaps I took of a 4 barrelled Nordenfelt ...

Monday, 24 August 2015

US Naval War College Museum

I recently had the opportunity it peruse the Museum of the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The Mu seum itself is housed in...

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Early Machine Guns

To add to my earlier posts of real life VSF period weapons, I offer the following early model machine guns: Colt model M1895 Machine Gu...

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon

Second in this series of period machineries of death... A step up from the Gatling Gun (see here ), which fired small arms ammunition, thi...

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