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Two models of artillery of the 16 th century are analyzed in the article from the collection of Lviv Historical Museum. The technology of application of hook cannons and long-barrel small-caliber guns is considered. A comparative description of the structural features of the guns design that influenced the differences in application is made. Keywords: hook cannon, long-barrel small-caliber gun, artillery of the 16 th century, Lviv Historical Museum. Historical weaponry science is an integral part of military history. Comprehensive study of each individual cannon, which are stored in the museum collections, will enable weapon scientists, historians and those interested in history of artillery development to trace the evolution of this type of weaponry, understand exactly why, when and how particular constructive features of barrels were improved and changed. The use of comparative analysis will make the study of features of using different cannons of one time period possible. І. State of problem study. The history of firearms has always belonged to important research issues for military historians, the reflection of the fact can be seen in numerous scientific works. Although the quantitative composition of arsenals of Ukrainian castles and fortresses of the 14-18 th centuries has already been sufficiently thoroughly studied (works by M. Hrushevsky, I. Krypyakevich, V. Alexandrovich), the question of qualitative analysis remains insufficiently processed [1; 8; 13]. In the monograph "Arsenals of Ukrainian castles of 15-17 th centuries" O. Malchenko reviewed the history of the development of artillery and systems of state arsenals on Ukrainian lands in the 15-17 th centuries, giving partial analyses not only of their quantitative but also qualitative composition [9]. Separately the author highlighted the personal composition of the Ukrainian gunners, the conditions and character of their service. A significant contribution to the study of the history of the appearance and development of artillery of 15-18 th centuries in Lviv was made by K. Badetsky. In the works "Lviv metal casting of the times of Zygmunt I" and "Medieval Lviv metal casting" the author describes which masters and when worked in the city, partly analyzes inventory descriptions of the city arsenal on the basis of documentary sources analysis [2; 3]. In contemporary Ukrainian historiography, the problem of individual item study of artillery artifacts is presented by works of O. Malchenko and M. Verkhoturova. Study of the issues of the history of formation of museum collections of artillery still remains unsatisfactory and needs further processing. II. The purpose of the author is thorough analysis of the structure of the described models that affects the way of their application. Today in the collection of Lviv historical museum there are two models of artillery of the 16 th century, in inventory books they were assigned numbers Z-2875 and Z-2878 [6; 7]. They are very similar visually and constructively, but each has its own peculiarities of application. We associate these two models with light artillery, thus we consider comparison of their characteristics that affect the differences in application expedient. Fig.1
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In 1854, as Europe prepared for the Crimean War, its artillery differed little from that of the armies of Waterloo forty years earlier: bronze tubes mounted on wooden carriages, dragged into visible range of the enemy, loaded from the muzzle with solid iron balls and gunpowder, and hauled back into place after every shot. In 1914, as war broke out once again, the picture had changed dramatically. Safely concealed miles away from their targets, artillery rained down high explosive shells detonating on impact, at rates inconceivable sixty years before. Two men contributed more than any others to this transformation: Britain’s William Armstrong, dubbed “Lord Bomb” by the satirical magazine Punch, and Germany’s Albert Krupp- the “Cannon King”. Founders of massive manufacturing conglomerates, they exemplified both the technological progress of the period and the fundamental shift from agriculture to industry across Europe. This article explores the way in which their businesses grew, and how this growth was affected by a combination of events, personality and wider social and cultural trends.
Smoothbore Ordnance Journal / Ken Trotman Publishing
SOJ-08 French and Russian Crimean Artillery2016 •
This issue has five themes. 1. French M1827 Valée Field Ordnance (1827-1853) 2. French Ordnance of the Crimean War including the 'Napoleon' 12cm Canon-Obusier 3. Ordnance at the Siege of Sebastopol 4. Russian Crimean M1838 Ordnance and M1850 Light 12-pdr 5. British, French and Spanish Mountain Guns and Howitzers
Heritage Science
A copper alloy light cannon from Grodno: an example of early firearms from Eastern Europe2021 •
The paper discusses a recent find of a copper alloy light cannon discovered at the Old Castle in Grodno, Belarus. The research aim was to analyse the artefact in all its possible aspects, including archaeological and historical contexts, possible analogies, and the gun's technology of manufacture. This latter was done against a broad comparative background of what is known on manufacturing technologies of late medieval and modern period copper alloy firearms. First, the archaeological and historical contexts of the discovery are dealt with. Then, the morphology and typochronology of the cannon are discussed and relevant analogies are proposed. Next, the technology of manufacture of the cannon is studied on the basis of metallographic examinations and EDS analyses of the metal's elemental composition. It was found out that the artefact had been made of leaded copper. The cannon can be dated with reasonable certainty to the late 14th c., as implied both by the find context, the morphology and the chemical composition of the artefact. Its deposition can be related to fights over the Old Castle in Grodno in this period, waged by Teutonic, Polish and Lithuanian forces. It can tentatively be proposed that the cannon was manufactured in a Teutonic Order's workshop, but further research is necessary to verify this supposition.
Journal of the Arms & Armour Society
Rethinking the “Cossack Gun”: A 17th century organok from LvivWriting in The Journal of the Ordnance Society in 1999, Robert Morgan described an organ gun from Ukraine, known as the "Cossack Gun". The authors reassess this appellation with a critical eye, examining the available records of Ukrainian museums, as well as period sources describing the presence of similar weapons in the arsenals of Zhytomyr, Kamianka, Bar, and—in particular—Lviv. The authors conclude that, on the basis of available evidence, it is most likely the so-called "Cossack Gun" actually originates in the arsenals of Lviv. Also included are the key physical characteristics of the gun and clear photographs to aid in further study.
The present report provides a short description of a conference titled “Second International Research Conference on the History of Arms and Armor in Kyiv, Ukraine”. It was the second scientific conference dedicated to the study of historical weapons in Ukraine. A number of international experts in the field of historical arms and armor were invited to the conference. Each researcher had been asked to provide a short and a long article on a specific research subject. The short articles had already been published in a peer‐review booklet that was handed out before the start of the conference. The long articles will be published together as a large collection of paper in future. Keywords: conference; history of arms and armor; swords; cannons; research.
Congress Târgu Mureş
Bronze mounts of an ostentatious ship in a hoard from a Lăpuș style Gavá culture vessel Kriva on the Tisza in the Carpatho-Ukraine2016 •
A hoard of Urio-Opaly type (Brz D/14-13th century BC) ) was discovered in a Lǎpuş style conical necked vessel on a high terrace of the Tisza River near Kriva, rajon Chust in the Ukranian Maramures in 1966. It was composed of a typical assemblage of conical and disk butted axes and spiral jewelry but also two remarkable cast bronze mounts. An upswept socket with lentoid button shaped mounts and a triangular pointed element which are interpreted as the bronze decorations of the prow and/or stern of an inceptive Late Bronze ostentatious ship. Comparable mounts, which are also likely to have decorated the extremeties of ships, were found in the hoard Lozova II in Moldavia. In this article further bronze mounts, remains of early ships and iconographic parallels are consulted from Scandenavia, Western Europe, the Aegean and the Near east in order to propose a likely reconstruction of these remarkable vessels which were probably plying East Central Europe’s great rivers at the dawn of the late Bonze Age and forming tangible ties between maritime traditions ranging from Egypt to Sweden
Studia Historica: Historia Moderna
A Historiografia Rural Portuguesa2007 •
ENTZUG, TRANSFER, TRANSIT: Menschen, Objekte, Orte und Ereignisse. 20 Jahre Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V.
Postkoloniale Provenienzforschung im Ethnologischen Museum und im Museum für Asiatische Kunst: Methoden und Ziele einer kooperativen Forschungspraxis2024 •
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Ni patrie ni frontières
Quand Le Monde libertaire ouvrait ses colonnes à la rhétorique antisémite (20142014 •
La Revue de Médecine Légale
Classification des méthodes utilisées en identification comparative en médecine légale illustrée par la casuistique2011 •
Міжнародна Економічна Політика
Фінансова євроінтеграційна політика України2013 •
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One-year outcome of an integrative inpatient treatment for dual diagnosis patients1999 •
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Effect of perturbations on the widths of narrow morphology-dependent resonances in Mie scattering1991 •