Wonderful invention of a mortar with which soldiers can be shot through the air in a sphere (1686)
It was powered by a big air bellow?
"New and wondrous invention of a copper mortar, which by means of the wind throws bombs so large that one can hide 25 men in it and throw them without damage into a hostile city or fortress: put to the test and invented by the world-class engineer Mustaphato Salicio, renegade of time." Rijksmuseum