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Spud gun. A typical factory-made toy die-cast spud gun. The cap attached to the muzzle converts it into a water pistol. A spud gun or potato gun is a small toy gun used to fire a fragment of potato. To operate, one punctures the surface of a potato with the gun's hollow tip and pries out a small pellet which fits in the muzzle.
Potato cannon. A potato cannon, also known as a potato gun or potato launcher, is a pipe-based cannon that uses air pressure (pneumatic), or combustion of a flammable gas (aerosol, propane, etc.), [1][2][3][4] to fire projectiles, usually potatoes. [5] A simple design consists of a pipe sealed on one end, with a reducer on the other end to ...
The majority of the division and its equipment was split up and shipped by railroad, while some were transported on five Liberty Ships. Each Australian state had a different rail gauge (or width), and the equipment and men had to be offloaded at each state's boundary and reloaded onto a new train. The division's trains crossed four states ...
Levine and Cossman also successfully mass marketed the potato gun, [5] toy shrunken heads [6] to hang from car rear view mirrors and balloon animals. [7] In 1956, while at a Fourth of July picnic at his sister's pool, he spotted a mound of ants. This inspired him to found Uncle Milton's Toys, which is best known for its Uncle Milton's Ant Farm ...
Cap gun. A cap gun, cap pistol, or cap rifle is a toy gun that creates a loud sound simulating a gunshot and smoke when a small percussion cap is ignited by a hammer hitting the gun powder. Cap guns were originally made of cast iron, but after World War II were made of zinc alloy, and most newer models are made of plastic.
M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. Colt–Browning M1895/14 machine gun in 7mm Mauser caliber, possibly used in the Mexican Revolution. The Colt–Browning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 ...
A38 Cal. .50 machine gun AN/M2 (aircraft) A39 Cal. .50 machine gun heavy, aircraft fixed, M2. A40 Cal. .22 machine gun trainer M1. A41. A42 M3 and M3A4 hand cart, general utility [2] M3 and M3A4 hand cart, general utility. M4 hand cart, M3 cart configured for transportation of .30-caliber M1917A1 Browning Machinegun.
Ethan Allen (armsmaker) 6 shot .36 caliber percussion pepperbox by Allen & Thurber (Worcester). Barrel flute bears 1837 patent date, hammer is marked "Allen's Patent". Ethan Allen (September 2, 1808 – January 7, 1871) was a major American arms maker from Massachusetts. He is unrelated to the revolutionary Ethan Allen.