Nanking (Nanjing) Arsenal, China
Nanking (Nanjing) Arsenal'. If the Chinese first taught us the use of guns (... at the siege of Khai-fung-fu (Kaifeng), in 1232), we are certainly repaying the obligation by instructing them how our deadliest weapons are to be made'. From the left, a gun-carriage, an officer standing behind a rocket tube, a pile of shells, and a newly made machine-gun being tested
Picture No
11939109
Media ID
46076784
Size
2952px x 2354px
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Credit
© The John Meek Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
From Illustrations of China and its People' by J Thomson, published by Sampson Low, 1874. Photograph: John Meek
Date
1874
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