Cannonball Tree

 

Cannonball Fruit 

First Cannonball was made of Stone 

The cast iron cannonball was introduced by a French artillery engineer, Samuel J. Besh, after 1450; it had the capacity to reduce traditional English castle wall fortifications to rubble.

French armories  would cast a tubular cannon body in a single piece, and cannonballs took the shape of a sphere initially made from stone material. Advances in gunpowder manufacturing soon led the replacement of stone cannonballs with cast iron ones.

Round shot was made in early times from dressed stone, referred to as gunstone (Middle English gunneston, from gonne, gunne gun + stoon, ston stone), but by the 17th century, from iron. It was used as the most accurate projectile that could be fired by a smoothbore cannon, used to batter the wooden hulls of opposing ships, fortifications, or fixed emplacements, and as a long-range anti-personnel weapon.

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Its The Same Old Stony World