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Fifty-five ton Indian bronze cannon from 1549.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...840#post167621
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...551#post128152
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...5803#post82569
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2756#post97065
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...230#post116025
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.
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