content_output-050_2 (Q6215)

supports to the gun. This particular style of fire-arm is referred to by the name of "blow tube," or cerbotain. Another early weapon was the "bombardo cubito," or "elbow-joint gun." In this, the tube of the cannon was fixed at right angles to the powder chamber, a, an aperture in the side of B permitting its introduction; it was held in position by a wedge driven between a cross-piece of the frame and the rear of the powder-box. The angle of firing was adjusted by means of the prop, c.