Ōshima Takatō
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Ōshima Takatō
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Ōshima Takatō was a Japanese engineer who created the first reverberation blast furnace and first Western-style gun in Japan. Ōshima was born of samurai status in Morioka City, Nanbu Domain which is now Iwate Prefecture in 1826. Around this time the feudal clans of Japan were competing to develop superior Western-style armaments. The government of Mito Domain hired Ōshima to make Western-style guns. In 1855 the first of two reverberation blast furnaces that he built in Mito was completed. This f
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Japanese engineer
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2022-10-23T11:36:05Z
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