The casting of iron cannon in Japan

[estcrh]

I just read some interesting information on the casting of iron cannon in Japan using the first western style blast furnaces in the 1850's, here are links to the books.

 

Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan, By David G. Wittne

http://books.google.com/books?id=9p3HpmImvZwC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=cast+iron+samurai+cannon&source=bl&ots=vedS29ofdq&sig=YbmokDT_eod6FoohW1vhad-ytAA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a0fRT7HoNIim8QSCwKTIAw&ved=0CIABEOgBMAY#v=onepage&q=cast%20iron%20samurai%20cannon&f=false

 

 

The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first century, By Tessa Morris-Suzuki,

http://books.google.com/books?id=XaK_xAYmbfsC&pg=PA57&dq=cast+iron+samurai+cannon&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kEzRT8WCKoGk8gSQ_MywAw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=cast%20iron%20samurai%20cannon&f=false

[watsonmil]

Dear Eric,

I have no idea where or how you come up with the GEMS that you keep surprising us with, ... but you do and what is especially great is that you share ! Thank you for a most interesting read.

... Ron Watson

[estcrh]

Dear Eric,

I have no idea where or how you come up with the GEMS that you keep surprising us with, ... but you do and what is especially great is that you share ! Thank you for a most interesting read.

... Ron Watson

Ron, glad (and surprised) I was able to find something you did not already read.