Making and Using the Booming Guns

Title (Dublin Core): Making and Using the Booming Guns
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Artillery (and shells)
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): 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
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War I
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1916-06
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 88, n. 6, 1916
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 848
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)