Gunpowder Pile-Driver

One in which the ram is driven up from the head of the pile by the explosion of a cartridge. It is now but little used, as a steam engine is always at hand, and is generally employed to lift up the ram. IMG:content-0446.png:[merged small][graphic][subsumed] Execution of the Gunpowder Plot Criminals, London, 1605. (From an old print.) ment, Nov. 5, 1605, and destroy King, Lords, and Commons. Guy Fawkes was detected preparing the train.