Gun didn't explode during testing? --> successful test!
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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I mean around the same period of history the explosion of steamboat boilers (which tended to turn the entire boat into mist) were considered to be completely unpredictable acts of god (it was always lack of maintenance) so.... kinda yeh.
Can you tell us more about the steamboat boilers pls? How often did they explode, were there any famous incidents, and why did they explode?
This ones about a famous disaster, not sure how much detail it goes into about the kind of mythos they had behind it but I've watched this youtuber before and he's usualyl pretty good. https://youtu.be/TySA8ViKjCo
That was really interesting! Thanks for sharing. The part that got me the most was the experience of the Civil War soldiers. They had it terrible.
We had lower standards.
I wonder if it'd work better if the gunpowder chambers were connected a bit, so it all explodes pretty much at once
Make the chambers share a central wick or ignition chamber.
I also wonder if just firing 2 regular canonballs was effective
It is the chain that was the innovation
The article/meme specifically states the canon was experimental and the canon never saw battle.
Also didn't ships already have canons capable of tearing down masts with chained balls by that time?
The difference there, chain shot, is that the chain is still fairly short, because you can't really get a large length of chain to reliably 'unfold' from a single projectile when fired. This beast had a chain that started unfurled, attached to each cannon ball, and long enough to go all the way down each of the barrels - making it, theoretically, have a massive spread of chain which could scythe down large numbers of troops in formation, instead of just a handful (for which one would generally prefer grapeshot, shrapnel, or canister).
I wonder if a single canon with 3 balls chained together would have worked by loading the center ball
It would work in the sense that you'd now have two cannonballs being lifted up towards the gun and crew when the center ball left the barrel only for them to smash violently into each other assuming they don't smash into something else first, lol.
Two halfings mount the other balls and prepare to be launched into the back lines
I doubt the chain would survive.
More beads. Like, 20 of them. Load one, put the others up my bum. Fire the cannon. Pure bliss.
A common combustion chamber would have been better, but even then you have slightly different sized balls, different wadding with different amounts of friction, etc.
I dont see why it wouldn't work with just a regular cannon and two balls, linked by chain, stacked in series in the barrel.
Another comment in this thread mentioned there is too much chain to fit in the barrel of a single canon
If I had to guess, you'd still have a difficulty measuring how much gunpowder you had in each side.