Photos Artillery shells & shrapnel

[Bombardier]

Artillery shell before and after it’s been blasted into 7,000 pieces of shrapnel, circa 1908

 

[Bombardier]

Assuming the shell was placed back together accurately?, note the smaller size of shrapnel towards the outside edge.

 

[John A Silkstone]

Just wondering if the man that collected all the pieces was on jankers, for being a naughty boy.

silky

 

[Bombardier]

LOL probably silky

 

[Bombardier]

Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell.

Portrait of Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842)

 

[Charlie-G]

Here is a nice cutaway of a an artillery shell showing the shrapnel laid out inside. Nasty bit of kit. Im guessing the fuse would have been set for air burst ?