Double Barreled Cannon, USA

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The double-barreled cannon is associate american Civil War-era experimental weapon and is presently a recent landmark placed in Athens, Georgia. Whereas originally designed for warfare, the cannon never saw battle. In 1862 John Gilleland, dentist, builder and mechanic, designed the double-barreled cannon. It had been solid in Athens, Georgia, for a price of $350. The two barrels have a divergence of 3 degrees, and additionally the cannon was designed to shoot at constant time two cannon balls connected with a sequence to “mow down the enemy somewhat as a scythe cuts wheat”.
Gilleland’s invention was a failure. Initial tested on twenty 2 Gregorian calendar month 1862, and engaged toward a target of two upright poles, uneven combustion of the powder And casting imperfections inside the barrels gave the connected balls a spinning movement in associate eccentric direction, with witnesses reporting that on its initial firing it “plowed up relating to associate acre of ground, molding up a grain field, mowed down saplings, then the chain poor, the two balls moving into all totally different directions.” On its second firing the chain shot across the horizon and into a vegetation of pine. “[The] vegetation of young pines at that it had been aimed looked as if a slender cyclone or an oversized mowing machine had passed through”, reported another witness.

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