Armaments

The state shipyard of the Venetian Republic, producing war galleys with standardized parts and staged assembly a hundred years bef...

Gun founding and complete munitions complex on the Thames that armed the British Empire, from cannon to cartridges. At its WWI pea...

Shipyard and engineering works at Barrow-in-Furness where Vickers built warships and arms. Submarines have rolled out almost conti...

Ironworks dating to 1646 that Alfred Nobel bought in 1894 and rebuilt into a modern cannon and powder concern, spending his last y...

Emil Skoda turned a small foundry into the largest arms maker of Austria-Hungary, later a giant of heavy engineering from tanks to...

The first national armory of the United States, established by Washington. Here interchangeable parts musket production matured in...

Second national armory, at the meeting of the Potomac and Shenandoah, where John Hall pioneered interchangeable rifle parts in the...

Founded by decree of Peter the Great, supplying Russian muskets for two centuries and Soviet weapons through the 20th. Tula gunsmi...

The government rifle works beside the River Lea that gave its name to the Lee-Enfield, the standard British service rifle through ...