Making a wooden pattern from which moulds for casting gun barrels could be formed in sand. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 15

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Making a wooden pattern from which moulds for casting gun barrels could be formed in sand. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540).

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