Paixhans gun (Weapon)
Paixhans gun
1822 AD - 1824 AD
The first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells. It was developed by the French general Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1822–1823.
The design furthered the evolution of naval artillery into the modern age. Its use presaged the end of wood as the preferred material in naval warships, and the rise of the ironclad.
The first Paixhans guns for the French Navy were made in 1841. The barrel of the guns weighed about 10,000 lbs. (4.5 metric tons), and proved accurate to about two miles. In the 1840s, France, Britain, Russia, and the United States adopted the new naval guns.[
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