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From stone points to firearms, weapons have followed advances in materials and chemistry. Gunpowder reached Europe in the late Middle Ages. In the 19th century guns came to be loaded from the breech. Their story is also that of defence and fortification.
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by Norman Wilkinson
In April 1917 German submarines were sinking nearly eight British ships a day. A marine painter suggested covering them in broken lines to fool the enemy about their course.
Photo: Photographer not identified (Public domain)
by Horace Lawson Hunley
Eight men turned a crank to drive this 12-metre submarine. On 17 February 1864 off Charleston, it became the first to sink a ship before going down in turn.
Photo: Sepia wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1902, after a painting then held by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society Museum, Richmond, Virginia. (Public domain)
by André Broca
A 29 kg crossbow that throws hand grenades: this is what an artillery captain who was also a physicist and a doctor imagined in 1915. It could send up to four grenades a minute about 125 metres.
Photo: Bain News Service (Public domain)
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