Jaivan Cannon. It is situated at Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur. The cannon was fired only once with a charge of 100 kilograms (220 lb) of gunpowder and when fired covered a distance of about 35 kilometers. The barrel is 20.19 foot (6.15 m) in length and weighs 50 tonnes. It has a diameter of 11 inches (280 mm). The barrel has decorations carved on it which depict trees, an elephant scroll and a pair of birds (ducks). It is mounted on wheels and has the mechanism of two back wheels mounted on roller pin bearings, to turn it 360° and fire in any direction. (5 years and 2590 days ago)
That's pretty cool. You'd think one of its biggest powers would have been intimidation.
I'm gonna buy this baby, just to shoo stray cats away. Excellent find, author.
Cool... what camera did you use for this?
Captgeo@ Thanks. I used SONY DSC-H7.
Thanks jerostone and kyricom. You would like to shoo cats away from this. Think something bigger..
Nice one.
Really big. Nice shot,author.
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