The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm...

Xanadu Gun, which contains an era date corresponding to 1298. The Heilongjiang hand cannon is dated a decade earlier to 1288, corresponding to the military...

primitive than later Yuan dynasty guns such as the Xanadu Gun and Heilongjiang hand cannon, and is unevenly cast. A similar weapon was discovered not far...

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it to the earliest firearms such as the Heilongjiang hand cannon of 1288 or the vase shaped European cannon of 1326. Historians consider firearms to...

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first developed. The oldest known bronze barrel handgun is the Heilongjiang hand cannon in 1288. It is 34 cm (13.4 inches) long without a handle and weighs...

extant samples with approximate dating likely predate it. The Heilongjiang hand cannon is dated a decade earlier to 1288, but the dating method is based...

Wuwei Bronze Cannon, to 1227, and the Heilongjiang hand cannon, to 1288. However they contain no inscriptions. The Wuwei Bronze Cannon was discovered...