There are all kinds of guys fighting. How wonderful were the weapons used in the American Civil War?

1864, a man named Thomas? Thomas Edgeworth Courtney's Irish immigrant invented the coal bomb. This thing is simply hollowing out a piece of coal, stuffing gunpowder with an iron pipe, and then plugging it up. As we all know, all steam ships in the US Navy burn coal. Confederate agents tried to get the coal bombs on the steamboat of the Union Army and mix them with ordinary coal. Then wait and see the explosion.

2. harmonica pistol?

Pull out the wheel in the middle of a general revolver and break it straight back, which is almost a harmonica pistol. The magazine of the harmonica pistol is made of a whole piece of metal with a row of holes on it. Before use, the fire cap, gunpowder and pellets should be filled into the hole one by one. After one shot, manually drag the magazine to the position of the next shot. Because the magazine looks like a harmonica, dragging it back and forth is also like playing the harmonica, so it is commonly known as the harmonica pistol.

The harmonica pistol is about 1859, and there is another one named J. It was invented by the French in 1920. During the civil war, the harmonica pistol was introduced to the United States and began to be used by people.

3. turntable rifle?

In actual combat, the performance of the turntable rifle was poor, and it went off without saying a word. As soon as it went off, the whole turntable exploded instantly, and all nine shells were fired. 360-degree omni-directional no dead angle damage.

4. Steam cannon?

1858, two inventors in Ohio, Charles? s？ Charles S. Dickinson and William? Jocelyn designed an automatic gun driven by a steam engine and intended to sell it to the federal army. 1860, they built a prototype in Boston. 186 1 year, Dickinson took the steam cannon to Baltimore, Maryland, and put it in a local company called Ross? Weiners' family is going to find time to show it to the public.