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Least Incompetent Confederate Engineer

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Least Incompetent Confederate Engineer

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Gun didn't explode during testing? --> successful test!
- I mean around the same period of history the explosion of steamboat boilers (which tended to turn the entire boat into mist) were considered to be completely unpredictable acts of god (it was always lack of maintenance) so.... kinda yeh.
  
  Can you tell us more about the steamboat boilers pls? How often did they explode, were there any famous incidents, and why did they explode?
- We had lower standards.

I wonder if it'd work better if the gunpowder chambers were connected a bit, so it all explodes pretty much at once
- Make the chambers share a central wick or ignition chamber.
  I also wonder if just firing 2 regular canonballs was effective
  
  It is the chain that was the innovation
  
  A common combustion chamber would have been better, but even then you have slightly different sized balls, different wadding with different amounts of friction, etc.
  I dont see why it wouldn't work with just a regular cannon and two balls, linked by chain, stacked in series in the barrel.
- If I had to guess, you'd still have a difficulty measuring how much gunpowder you had in each side.

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