Orban casts the great bombard
1453 · Event
A Hungarian gunfounder named Orban, turned away by the penniless emperor, sells the sultan a cannon 27 feet long that hurls a half-ton stone ball over a mile. It takes sixty oxen to move and can fire only a few times a day — but no wall ever built was made to withstand it.
On these timelines: Fall of Constantinople, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Master, Science & Technology
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