10 Most Extra Ordinary Weapons of The World

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19th Century French Weapons
Canon Valle de 12 with carriage 1854

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Canon obusier de campagne de 12 modele 1853

 

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19th Century French Weapons
French De Bange cannon from 1877

 

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19th Century French Weapons
CanetM890

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Canon de 75

 

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19th Century French Weapons
French submarine Plongeur...launched on 16 April 1863. She was the first submarine in the world to be propelled by mechanical (rather than human) power.

Top and Side views

Inner Structural view

 

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19th Century French Weapons
French battleship Redoutable
Redoutable (1876) was a central battery and barbette ship of the French Navy. She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material [2]

 

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19th Century French Weapons
French armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme (1887)
Dupuy de Lôme was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, launched in Brest in 1887, and commissioned in 1890. She is considered by some to be the world's first armoured cruiser.[1] She was named after the naval architect Dupuy de Lôme.

 

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19th Century French Weapons

The Gymnote was one of the world's first all-electric submarines.
French submarine Gymnote (Q1)
Launched on 24 September 1888, she was developed in France following early experiments by Dupuy de Lôme, and, after his death, by Gustave Zédé (1825-1891) and Arthur Krebs, who completed the project. For the Gymnote, Artur Krebs developed the electric engine, the first naval periscope and the first naval electric gyrocompass. The name "Gymnote" is French for Gymnotidae.

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Jean-Marie Le Bris
Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856.

A sailor and sea captain, Jean-Marie Le Bris sailed around the world observing the flight of the Albatross bird. Although he sailed around the world, his true ambition was to fly. He caught some of the birds and analysed the interaction of their wings with air, identifying the aerodynamic phenomenon of lift, which he called "aspiration".

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Du Temple Monoplane
The du Temple Monoplane was a large aeroplane made of aluminium, built in Brest, France, by naval officer Félix du Temple in 1874.

 

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19th Century French Weapons
La France (airship)
The La France was a French Army airship launched by Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs in 1884. Collaborating with Charles Renard, Arthur Constantin Krebs piloted the first fully controlled free-flight with the La France. The 170-foot (52 m) long, 66,000 cubic feet (1,900 m3) airship, electric-powered with a a 435 kg battery[1][2] completed a flight that covered 8 km (5 miles) in 23 minutes. It was the first full round trip flight[3] with a landing on the starting point. On its seven flights in 1884 and 1885[4] the La France dirigible returned five times to its starting point.

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Ader Avion III
The Avion III (sometimes referred to as the Aquilon or the Éole III) was a primitive steam-powered aircraft built by Clément Ader between 1892 and 1897, financed by the French War Office.

Retaining the same basic bat-like configuration of the Éole, the Avion III was equipped with two engines driving two propellers. While the earlier aircraft had no means of directional control at all, this one was equipped with a small rudder.

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Lepage silex gun dite du Premier Consul circa 1800
Jean Lepage (1779–1822) was a famous French gunsmith.[1] He worked for Louis XVI, Napoléon and then Louis XVIII. He was the inventor of fulminate percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the flint-lock mechanism and opened the way to modern firearms. This followed the discovery of fulminates by Edward Charles Howard in 1800.

 

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19th Century French Weapons
Lebel 8mm round
The 8×50mmR French (8 mm Lebel) rifle cartridge was the first smokeless gunpowder cartridge to be made and adopted by any country. It was introduced by France in 1886. Formed by necking down the 11 mm Gras black powder cartridge, the smokeless 8 mm Lebel cartridge started a revolution in military rifle ammunition. Standard 8mm Lebel ammunition was also the first to feature a boat-tailed bullet (Balle D) which was adopted in 1898. [1]