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The Heavy Stuff, #16--the Big Boom (1872)

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This Russian 20" smooth ore cannon weighed 44.5 tons and shot a 900-pound projectile and used 117 pounds of explosive charge to do that. The concussion wave from the firing of this beast was said to be felt 1/3 of a mile away where it would topple bad chimneys.

Source: Scientific American, December 14, 1872.

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