Sentence examples for cast cannon from inspiring English sources

A stash of bronze set aside for Da Vinci's sculpture was needed instead to cast cannon.

He delivered lectures in a series of crash courses in which soldiers were taught how to extract saltpetre (potassium nitrate) from farmyards and outbuildings, how to use the product to make gunpowder, and how to cast cannon.

The Chinese also mounted over 3,000 bronze and iron cast cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend themselves from the Mongols.

10 a.m. 3) In Touch With the Past Three years ago, the Civil War Visitors Center (570 Tredegar Street, 804-771-2145) was created in the only building left at the huge Tredegar Iron Works, which cast cannons and guns for the Confederacy.

However, King Thibaw melted many of them to cast cannons for fortification of his palace.

He also invented a system of casting cannon around a hollow core cooled from inside, resulting in a stronger barrel as concentric layers of metal cooled and shrank one upon another.

There were now the new cast bronze cannons, demi-cannons, culverins and sakers and the wrought iron port pieces (a name that indicated they fired through ports), all of which required carriages, had longer range and were capable of doing serious damage to other ships.

However, cast iron cannon have a tendency to burst without having shown any previous weakness or wear, and this makes them more dangerous to operate.

In 1629 he led an incursion to the outskirts of Beijing, during which he captured Chinese craftsmen who knew how to cast Portuguese cannon.

Cast-iron cannon were significantly heavier and bulkier than bronze guns firing the same weight of ball.

They did to the early modern fortress what cast-bronze cannon had done to the medieval curtain wall.