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OCR: WAREARI Leontardo's time early forms CONTINUE of guns and cannons were used STEAM GANNON in the wars between the Italian CONTENTS city-states. Leonardo designed many impros vements of existing INDEX tec hnology PRINT his cannon uses steam rather than gunpowder to fire the cannonball. COPY container full of water placed on top of brazier or pan of burning coal, near the breech, or back QUIT end of the gun When the water is heated, it turns into steam The force of the steam propels the ammunition out of the cannon Steam cannons were later used during the Ameri ican Civil War and World War waterl will instantly become changed into so much steam that it will seem marvelous, tind especially -when one sees its fur and hears its roar." .199 SoftKey Multimedia Inc. subsidiary of SoftKey Internatio ...