Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we saw how a puddling furnace could be used to convert pig iron/cast iron into wrought iron , which is much more suitabl...

In our last post, we saw how people converted pig iron  (or cast iron), an alloy of iron useless for making firearms, to a more useful wroug...

A couple of posts ago, we studied about the blast forge and how it is used to produce pig iron . While blast forges are much more efficient ...

In our last post, we looked at how blast furnaces were used to make an iron alloy called pig iron . While blast furnaces are good at extract...

In our last post, we studied how a bloomery was historically used to produce wrought iron  from the raw iron ore. The problem with bloomerie...

In our last post, we looked at how bronze was used for early gun barrels . In today's post, we will look at early barrels made of a form...

In our last few posts in this series, we've studied different metal alloys used in modern firearms: steel , stainless steel , aluminum ...