Early modern high-tech: Firearms
The Imperial Armoury holds one of the world's most significant collections of historic firearms. Besides their extraordinary craftsmanship, the complex ignition mechanisms made these firearms true high-tech objects of the early modern period.
7 art objects

Johann Christoph Treffler , Büchsenmacher Spätes 17. Jahrhundert

Kaiser Karl VI. Sohn des Leopold I. von Habsburg Österreich 1731

um 1500

18. Jahrhundert

Kaiser Karl VI. Sohn des Leopold I. von Habsburg Österreich datiert 1733

König Sigismund III Sohn d. Johann III. Vasa um 1600

Erzherzog Leopold V. Habsburg Österreich 1628
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