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A gunpowder magazine is a magazine (building) designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was a universal explosive used in the military and for civil engineering : both applications required storage magazines.
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Drawing of the octagonal Williamsburg Magazine. On the early morning of April 21, 1775 Royal Navy sailors went to the Williamsburg powder magazine, loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon, and transported it to the eastern end of the Quarterpath Road to be loaded aboard the Magdalen in the James River. The act was ...
The ammunition storage area aboard a warship is referred to as a magazine or the "ship's magazine" by sailors. Historically, when artillery was fired with gunpowder, a warship's magazines were built below the water line—especially since the magazines could then be readily flooded in case of fire or other dangerous emergencies on board the ...
Gunpowder was also stored in casemates at other locations, such as Fort St. Angelo, Fort Ricasoli, and Mdina. [1] [2] The Birgu magazine was located close to civilian housing, and the residents had complained about the dangers before the explosion. Preparations had been made to find alternative sites but nothing had been done; the storerooms ...
The building, in 2005. The Old Powder Magazine is a historic building in Arkengarthdale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.. The building was constructed in about 1804, to store gunpowder used in the nearby C. B. lead mines.
The Powder Magazine is a gunpowder magazine and museum at 79 Cumberland Street in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Completed in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina. It was used as a gunpowder store through the American Revolutionary War, and later saw other uses. [3]
Powder tower or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until the 20th century; Gunpowder magazine, a building designed to store gunpowder in wooden barrels; historical successor to the above; Magazine (artillery), an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored