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  1. Transitional armour describes the armour used in Europe around the 13th and 14th centuries, as body armour moved from simple mail hauberks to full plate armour. The couter was added to the hauberk to better protect the elbows, and splinted armour and the coat of plates provided increased protection for other areas. Armourers in general began ...

  2. Baroque bows. Until the mid-18th century, bows were produced with a different standard of durability in mind. The frog and tip had no metallic reinforcements; buttons were made of organic materials such as horn, bone or ivory; and there was no ferrule before around 1780. Surviving bows are often damaged as a result.

  3. A Karo boy holding a bow and arrow. The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles ( arrows ). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the practice was common to many prehistoric cultures.

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  5. Over time, the Tourte bow became the standard, and, very slowly, the other bow variants disappeared from use. However, I have two transitional bows made in England, as well as a copy of a Baroque bow, all of which hail from the 19th century. Colorado bow maker Evan Orman comments that: “The Baroque bow is analogous to cross-country skiing.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BallisticsBallistics - Wikipedia

    Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.

  7. Oct 18, 2015 · The Death card from the Visconti-Sforza Tarot deck. Longbows were not so effective that they replaced the major medieval tactic of a cavalry charge; rather, they were used to harass the enemy and to prevent the enemy from spreading out enough to threaten the sides or the flanks of an army. Archers could thin out the ranks of the enemy army, or ...

  8. The form and construction of the bow remained relatively unchanged for many millennia. It was not until the 1960s the American engineers began to take an interest in archery. The bow evolves once more to take the form of the modern compound bow. An American inventor by the name of Holless Wilbur Allen, applied for the patent, “Archery Bow ...

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