Explosive Devices
- Naval mine, a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines
- Organ gun
- Devices to be used in assassinations:
- Against Napoleon Bonaparte, in the plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise
- Against Louis-Philippe of France by conspirator Giuseppe Fieschi
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