Show TUB tim ANTIQUITY OF CANNON no liis his 1 toi tobian ian has ever given us tho the true epoch of the use of metallic cannon it is certain however that they were in ill use about the middle of the fourteenth century the swedes used lead cannon between the years 1620 and 1632 which lined on the inside b by y tubes of wood or copper and securer secured on the outside by ii hon on rings z the gett gen cral opinion is that cannon were first made use of in 1336 or 1338 they were certainly used by the E english in 1 1347 at the siege of calais and by the venetians at in 1436 and in their war with the genoese in 1391 and 1458 the turks employed them in the commencement ot of the fifteenth century maudice Maui ice of switzerland Switz eiland dis covered a method of castin casting cannon whole and borin boring 0 thorn them so as vodraw out the interior ht a single C piece in ill 1740 cannon were made of iron at st petersburg and balls of many pounds weight were projected without injuring the pieces cannon took their name from the fienco word canne a before their invention machines were used for throwing eno enormous rinous stones these were imitated from the arabs and called ingeno inq enia whence en gincer the first cannou cannon were mado of wood wrapped cd in numerous folds of linen and well secured by iron hoops everi even to this day wooden cannon lire arc said to bo be used by the poles |