1549 Indian bronze cannon - photo

[Altair]

Fifty-five ton Indian bronze cannon from 1549.

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Previously:

18th century bronze cannons - GIF
1464 Dardanelles siege cannon - photos
1586 Tsar Cannon
19th century cannon used in Syrian Civil War - video of it firing
Mini cannon - GIF

[IAMSatisfied]

If my calculations are correct, 55 tons of bronze would equal a cube of bronze slightly smaller than 6' on a side. The Great Bell of Dhammazedi (cast in 1484) weighed almost 6 times as much as this cannon, coming in at ~294 tons. I'd like to see the foundries for such massive pours, as well as the forming process.

[hemmjo]

It totally boggles my mind how they did things like that!!!! It certainly gets my mind wondering. I assume we are looking at the breach? I am puzzled, but not surprised... there must be something.

Some interesting reading with a few sketches and B/W photographs dispersed among the text.

https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/Up...IN%20INDIA.pdf