Sentence examples for cannon barrel from inspiring English sources

After missing their targets with the five available projectiles, a crewmember came on deck with a ball of Dutch cheese, which was stuffed into the 32-pounder cannon barrel.

Vitrines in the floor reveal archaeological finds, like an 18th-century cannon barrel scraper and a clock that stopped at 9 04 on 9/11, recovered from the Fresh Kills landfill.

One is a widely reproduced satirical poster, "Victory 1945," showing an airborne black artillery shell aimed directly at the opening of the cannon barrel from which it was shot.

The weapon that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 used a simpler detonation method known as a "gun-type system," in which conventional explosives sped a uranium projectile through a cannon barrel into a uranium target, creating a critical mass and a gargantuan blast.

In October, a cannon barrel was discovered.

There is a cannon barrel draped in laurel and olive branches carved into the wall above each group, to symbolize peace.

The boxes held stacks of cutout paper and cardboard soldiers, wearing uniforms from dozens of countries and wielding rifles, sabers or cannon barrels.

Check out the one day carnage at Antietam where the only monuments to the Generals on both sides are the six cannon barrels sunk halfway into the ground, muzzle down, where a general was killed.

It was at his father's factory at Bersham, Denbigh, Wales, that he constructed his new machine (1775) that could bore engine cylinders and cannon barrels with unequaled accuracy.

Heat was not formally recognized as a form of energy until about 1798, when Count Rumford (Sir Benjamin Thompson), a British military engineer, noticed that limitless amounts of heat could be generated in the boring of cannon barrels and that the amount of heat generated is proportional to the work done in turning a blunt boring tool.

The book describes the development of other weapons, including various proto guns such as the fire lance, handguns with up to ten barrels, handguns with possible serpentine locks used as components in matchlock firearms, early bombard and cannon, cannon barrels filled with metal balls containing poisonous gunpowder solutions, and cannons that were mounted on wheeled carriages.