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The disparity was even greater with a 16th-century heavy musket, which were 2,300 to 3,000 J (1,700 to 2,200 ft⋅lbf). [81] Most high-skilled bowmen achieved a far higher rate of shot than the matchlock arquebus, which took 30–60 seconds to reload properly. [76]
Godfrey Goodwin dates the first use of the matchlock arquebus by the Janissaries to no earlier than 1465. [12] The idea of a serpentine later appeared in an Austrian manuscript dated to the mid-15th century. The first dated illustration of a matchlock mechanism dates to 1475, and by the 16th century they were universally used.
16th-century religious buildings and structures by country (11 C) Renaissance architecture (6 C, 19 P) T. Tudor architecture (3 C, 62 P) Pages in category "16th ...
The name istinggar comes from the Portuguese word espingarda meaning arquebus or firearm. This term then corrupted into estingarda, eventually to setinggar or istinggar. [4] [2]: 53 [5]: 64 The word has many variations in the archipelago, such as satinggar, satenggar, istenggara, astengger, altanggar, astinggal, ispinggar, and tinggar.
The Kloveniersdoelen ("musketeers' shooting range") was a complex of buildings in Amsterdam which served as headquarters and shooting range for the local schutterij (civic guard). The companies of kloveniers were armed with an early type of musket known as an arquebus , known in Dutch as a bus , haakbus or klover (from the French couleuvrine ...
The hand cannon was widely used in China from the 13th century onward and later throughout Eurasia in the 14th century. In 15th century Europe , the hand cannon evolved to become the matchlock arquebus , which became the first firearm to have a trigger .
Japanese ashigaru firing hinawajū.Night-shooting practice, using ropes to maintain proper firing elevation. Tanegashima (), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured [1] arquebus [2] firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543. [3]
16th-century buildings and structures in the Ottoman Empire (1 C) Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in the 16th century" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total.