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The hand cannon (simplified Chinese: 火铳; traditional Chinese: 火銃; pinyin: huǒchòng or 手铳; 手銃; shǒuchòng), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the...

The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm...

Yuan dynasty troops are recorded to have used hand cannon in combat, and the earliest extant cannon bearing a date of production comes from the same...

equipped with hand cannons led by the Jurchen commander Li Ting (李庭) attacked the rebel prince Nayan's camp. The History reports that the hand cannons not only...

0 inch). The barrel is the lengthiest part of the hand cannon at 6.9 inches long. The hand cannon has a bulbous base at the breech called the Yoshi (藥室)...

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hand cannon, with metal barrel, high-nitrate gunpowder, and a properly sized projectile. The oldest surviving firearm is the Heilongjiang hand cannon...

the firing or trigger mechanism. Hand cannon, the earliest of firearms, had arrived in Europe by c. 1338. These cannons were loaded from the muzzle. The...

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SUB】세계최초 권총형 총통 '세총통' feat. 화력대왕 '세종' Se-Chongtong, the Smallest of Korean Hand Cannons, retrieved 2022-02-25 Black, Jeremy, Cambridge Illustrated Atlas, Warfare:...

over the hand cannon, which lacked a trigger and required the musketeer or an assistant to apply a match directly to the gunpowder by hand. The matchlock...

the earliest firearms such as the Heilongjiang hand cannon of 1288 or the vase shaped European cannon of 1326. Historians consider firearms to have reached...

were replaced with metal tubes and transformed into the metal-barreled hand cannon. The technology gradually spread throughout Eurasia during the 14th century...

French word pistolet is disputed. It may be from a Czech word for early hand cannons, píšťala ("whistle" or "pipe"), used in the Hussite Wars during the 1420s...

Wuwei Bronze Cannon, to 1227, and the Heilongjiang hand cannon, to 1288. However they contain no inscriptions. The Wuwei Bronze Cannon was discovered...

were notable for the extensive use of early handheld firearms such as hand cannons and wagon forts by the Hussites. Starting around 1402, priest and scholar...

as projectiles. Hand cannon projectiles developed in a similar manner. The first recorded instance of a metal ball from a hand cannon penetrating armor...

is similar to Xanadu gun. Hand cannon with handle, Yuan dynasty, 1341 Hand cannon, Yuan dynasty, 1351 Chinese hand cannon, Yuan dynasty. Cannion with...

favor of relying solely on the gunpowder blast. These became the first hand cannons. The first fire lances consisted of a tube, usually bamboo, containing...

barrel and an actual lock mechanism, unlike the hand-applied match of the hand cannon. Firing a hand cannon requires careful application of the match while...