1842
First screw-propelled warship, the USS Princeton, designed by John Ericsson
1842
1843
1844
1846
First modern deployment of rapid fire weapons. The espingol multi shot rocket gun.
Samuel Colt developed a mine with an electrical triggering mechanism capable of
sinking a ship
The explosion of Captain Robert F. Stockton's new 12-inch wrought-iron smoothbore
The Peacemaker during a demonstration, killing several prominent U.S. government members
First successful rifled cannon made by Cavelli in Italy
1846
Prussia first to take military advantage of the railway, using it to move an army corps with horses and guns to Cracow
1847
1848
1848-1851 The Schleswig War
1850
Alfred Krupp built the first steel gun
French Captain Caude Minie perfected the Minie ball, a cylindro-conoidal bullet which
would expand and seal the bore when fired. The new bullet design made the loading of
rifled muskets as quick as smoothbores.
The first use of the Espingol
Improvements in espingol allow large multi barrel emplacement gun and man carried rocket gun.
