BOMB

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 4

hollow ball or sholl filled with | c a ae and fired by means of | c a time-fuse or clock-work mechanism. | o setting fire ‘6 puildie " ai ela | inga, magazines, ete., | x and were thrown from mortars or howitzera. The conical! shell has now replaced | » the ordinary bomb-shell. Bombs have been for the destruction of life | 1 and by the nihilists, anarchists, and F 7 [s. 76]