19th CenturyContinuation 11818:Invention of the percussion ignition cap in England by Joseph Egg of Solothurn, Switzerland: 10 pts huntingpowder, 5 pts Potassium chlorate.1824:Perkins, constructed a steam artillery. Kadenz 240 per minute. Its problem was hauling and operating thesteam producing apparatus.1826:Invention of a magazine lock for 60 to 100 Igbition caps by the mathematition Paazig in Dresden.1831:Use of the artillery Monster Morter, with 22 inch caliber, at the siege of Antwerpen. The powder chamber holds30 pounds of black powder. The bomb weighs 900 pounds, loaded 1000 pounds. The artillery weighs 14,000pounds. One shot cost 500 Swiss Francs (aprox. $500) at the time.1835:Development of the needle ignition rifle by Johann Nikolaus Dreyse from Sömmerda by Erfurt. (Beginning ofthe development around 1826)1835:The Belgian Colonel Bohrmann manufactures a timed ignition; the shrapnel ignition, that allowed an exactregulation of the burning time.