Shot Tower

A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of shot balls by freefall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot is used for projectiles in firearms.

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Famous quotes containing the words shot and/or tower:

    “Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?—Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “If God made me a princess, why didn’t he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn’t snarl?”
    —Robert N. Lee. Rowland V. Lee. Princess, Tower of London, while the Princess’ mother is combing her hair (1939)