THE FIRST BOMBS
In the "Diary" of John Evelyn, who was born 320 years ago, there is what is probably the first allusion ever made to bombs. An entry under the year IG7B roads as follows:—“I saw a trial of those devilish murdering, mischiefdoing engines, called Bombs, shot out of the mortcr-pioce on Black Heath.’ Little did he realise that a descendant of (hose devilish engines would crash through the roof of his friend Christopher Wren's masterpiece.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 2
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77THE FIRST BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 2
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