Events Tagged: "artillery"

Dionysius I develops siege artillery at Syracuse - catapults become standard in warfare

Frederick the Great's artillery officers apply Euler's variational calculus to optimize cannon trajectories

Revolutionary War begins - Washington orders smallpox quarantine; Thompson uses Euler's ballistics for cannon placement

Battle of Waterloo decided by mathematical artillery calculations - superior British gunnery

Jean-Victor Poncelet develops projective geometry for fortification sight lines and artillery angles

Prussian army adopts Krupp steel breech-loading artillery - superior range and rate of fire over bronze muzzle-loaders