Giovanni Cavalli

Giovanni Cavalli (born July 23, 1808 in Turin , † December 23, 1879 ibid) was an Italian lieutenant general and inventor of the rifled breech-loading gun .

Effective range

Cavalli was assigned to Sweden by the Piedmontese army in 1846 and 1847 to oversee the casting of iron gun barrels . He worked in Åkers styckebruk and in Stafsjö , where he made experiments with rear-loaded rifled gun barrels. The Piedmontese artillery was the first force to have some rifled breech loading guns. They were used in the siege of Gaeta (1860/61).

Cavalli became commander of the Military Academy in 1865 and a member of the Council of the Military Order of Savoy in 1869 . He retired in July 1879.

Works

Giovanni Cavalli, Mémoire sur les canons se chargeant par la culasse, sur les canons rayés etc. , Paris, 1849
Giovanni Cavalli, Aperçu sur les canons rayés se chargeant par la bouche et par la culasse, et sur les perfectionnements à apporter à l'art de la guerre en 1861 , Turin, 1862
Giovanni Cavalli, Mémoire sur les éclatements remarquables des canonsen Belgique, de 1857 à 1858, et ailleurs à cause des poudres brisantes , Turin, 1868

literature

Jack Greene, Alessandro Massignani, Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Battleship , Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-938289-58-6

Individual evidence

^ Giovanni Cavalli, entry in the Meyers Lexicon 1905

personal data
SURNAME	Cavalli, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Turin
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1879
Place of death	Turin

[1] Giovanni Cavalli, entry in the Meyers Lexicon 1905