How a Steam-Pipe Hack Created a Vehicle-Crushing Shock Cannon

Описание: The Shock Cannon That Crushed Panzers: Thomas Aldrich's Impossible Weapon
In 1943, a Yorkshire railway engineer did the impossible—he turned a scrapped locomotive boiler into a weapon that crushed German armoured cars with sound waves. No explosives. No bullets. Just superheated steam and physics that shouldn't work.
Thomas Aldrich's "accidental" discovery created the world's first functional shock cannon, a weapon so revolutionary that military experts declared it impossible. In 13 seconds, he destroyed two Panzer IVs with acoustic energy alone, establishing a combat record that remains unbroken 80 years later.
From humble beginnings in Sheffield's coal-stained workshops to the battlefields of France, this is the story of how one man's understanding of pressure and geometry created a weapon the world had never seen—and would never see again.
Discover the engineer who mastered steam, defied convention, and died the same day his weapons became obsolete. His legacy? A ghost cannon that fired once and disappeared into history.

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