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Model showing how charges can be loaded into cannons

Jan Verbruggen · 1760 - 1762 · beech (wood); boxwood

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Beechwood model with palmwood screws, showing how blowholes (air pockets formed during the casting of iron) can be plugged in cannons. Probably belonging to documents in the National Archives, concerning the plugging of blowholes in cannons cast by the ordnance founder Jan Verbruggen in The Hague.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

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scale model

Credit lineModel dat laat zien hoe gallen in kanonnen gestopt kunnen worden. 1760 - 1762. Jan Verbruggen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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