Trivia 6-29-15 What is that?

[Trivia Master]

Identify this object:

credit: @chellers


**I will be observing Independence Day with my family on July 3rd, no trivia will be posted or scored that day.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Ketchum Grenade

 

[Stony]

Ketchum Hand Grenade
Source=http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-unusual-civil-war-weapons
Source-https://qmcivilwar.wordpress.com/grenade/

 

[dlavin]

Ketchum Grenade

 

[MRB1863]

Ketchum Hand Grenade that was used during the Civil War by throwing manually.

 

[E_just_E]

US Ketchum Hand Grenade. Those made in 1, 2, 3 and 5 lb sizes. This looks like a 3-pounder from here.

 

[FarawayFriend]

"Measuring over a foot long and ranging from one to five pounds the Ketchum hand grenade remains a unique artifact of the Civil war."

http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/AOM_NOV_2011.html

 

[rhettbutler1865]

Identify this object:
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credit: @chellers


**I will be observing Independence Day with my family on July 3rd, no trivia will be posted or scored that day.

Ketchum hand grenade; used by both Federal army and navy. Patented Aug. 20, 1861 by William F. Ketchum.

 

[rhettbutler1865]

Ketchum Hand Grenade.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

A 'Ketchum' grenade. Although frankly I'd rather not try to "ketch 'um."

 

[marinegrunt]

It's a hand grenade.

Edit - The question did not specify that you had to identify the name of the inventor of the pictured item, so I will accept "hand grenade" or simply "grenade" as correct answers.

Hoosier

 

[nitrofd]

A grenade.

 

[ErnieMac]

Ketchum Grenade.

 

[nextcity]

Hand grenade. Patented August 20, 1861

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Despite CNN's mistaken identification of this object as an ISIS symbol, in actuality it is one of Ketchum's patent hand grenades

These hand grenades were designed and patented by William F. Ketchum of Buffalo, New York. They were designed to be thrown like a dart, and upon impact, an internal plunger would strike a percussion cap that would ignite the powder. Made as one-, three-, and five-pounder grenades, they were used by both the federal army and navy. Ketchum grenades have been recovered at Petersburg, Port Hudson, Vicksburg, and in the USS Cairo, the Union gunboat that was sunk in the Yazoo River in Mississippi.

Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson Collection

 

[GELongstreet]

That is Ketchum Grenade.

 

[Brenal]

Ketchum Hand Grenade

 

[adisciu9]

Ketchum Hand Grenade

 

[redbob]

It appears to be a Raines/Ketchum hand grenade

 

[MaryDee]

Ketchum hand grenade
http://www.civilwarvirtualmuseum.org/1863-1865/vicksburg/ketchum-hand-grenade.php