Greetings,
I've been reading a bit about the
brandistock, which was essentially a spear which functioned like modern
gravity knives or police
expandable/collapsible batons.
Does anyone know if there was such a thing as a "mechanical spear"? I'm thinking of something which appeared to be a simple staff, but at the push of a button a (narrow) spear head would have emerged straight from the interior of the shaft, much like the tip of a ball-point pen.
I can well imagine something like this having come out of the age of gears and springs in the late Renaissance.
Thanks in advance.