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March 13, 1842 (80 years old)
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Gemini
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Henry Shrapnel
Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, the ninth child of Zachariah Shrapnel and his wife Lydia. In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. He successfully demonstrated this in 1787 at Gibraltar. He intended the device as an anti-personnel weapon. In 1803, the British Army adopted a similar but elongated explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor's name. It has lent the term shrapnel to fragmentation from artillery shells and fragmentation in general ever since, long after it was replaced by high explosive rounds. Until the end of World War I, the shells were still manufactured according to his original principles.
BornJun 3, 1761, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DiedMar 13, 1842, Southampton
NationalityBritish

About Henry Shrapnel

Entrepreneur Henry Shrapnel was born in England on June 3, 1761. He dies at the age of 80, on March 13, 1842.

Inventor of the long-range artillery projectile, whose name has come to be associated with shells that explode into a large number of shards.

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Henry Shrapnel before becoming famous

Henry Shrapnel was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1761 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He served in the Royal Artillery as an officer, which allowed him to further develop his innovation.

Achievement of Henry Shrapnel

His artillery shell was extremely dangerous, with several small pellets meant to puncture the skin.

Henry Shrapnel's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In the 1860s, his son Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel served in the British-controlled province of Quebec.

Henry Shrapnel Collabed with

When the novelist Novelist Francis Mason served in the French army's artillery corps, he saw firsthand the destruction his shrapnel rounds caused.

Francis Van Wyck Mason (1901 - 1978) (Novelist)
Francis Van Wyck Mason (1901 - 1978)

Novelist

Henry Shrapnel Income & Net worth

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