Making and Using the Booming Guns

Titolo: Making and Using the Booming Guns
Oggetto: en Technology; en Artillery (and shells)
Article Title and/or Image Caption: Making and Using the Booming Guns; caption 1: Above, French gun carriages being
tested at the Creusot works. At left, an
Austrian mortar at maximum elevation.

Below, a 220-millimeter (8.8-inch) gun .

caption 2 : The Italian engineers have proved themselves among the best in the world. Time and
again the Austrians have been surprised by having shells dropped upon them, apparently
from the skies. The Italians had dragged huge guns up precipitous mountain slopes and
were safely installed out of the enemy's range on plateaus, from which shells were fired over
mountains. Here we see a 305-millimeter gun (12-inch) being assembled on a mountainside
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: World War I
Data di rilascio: 1916-06
pagine: 848
Diritti: Public Domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Archived by: Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)