Infernal machines

Open Bomb. In intelligence usage, an undisguised or unconcealed sabotage expl device, distinguished especially from an infernal machine Ref J. Quick, Dictionary of Weapons and Military Terms , McGraw-Hill, NY (1973), 334... 

Hell s or Infernal Machines ). Stettbacher called them Anarch] s ten bom ben, Nihilis-tenbomben or flollenmashinen ... 

A nuiiii)cr of parallel barrels arranged in rank, and liaving connected vents for intercommunication of fire. (Town.sknd, 1871.) The infernal machine of Fieschi, which lie fired on Louis Pliilippe, was a row of barrels clinched to a frame, and had a train of pow dcr which was laid over all the vents in succession, like the row of bands in a proving-house. 

The infernal machine with which FiescUi attempted to assassinate Louis Philippe in 1835, and suc-... 

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