Infernal machine
Encyclopedia

Explosive devices

  • Naval mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

    , a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines
  • Organ gun
  • Devices to be used in assassinations:
    • Against Napoleon Bonaparte, in the plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise
      Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise
      The plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise, also known as the Machine infernale plot, was an assassination attempt on the life of the First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, in Paris on 24 December 1800...

    • Against Louis-Philippe of France by conspirator Giuseppe Fieschi

Games

  • Machine of Lum the Mad
    Machine of Lum the Mad
    The Machine of Lum the Mad is a powerful artifact in many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Dungeons & Dragons :...

    , a major artifact in Dungeons & Dragons
  • A video game, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

Culture

  • Infernal Machine (film)
    Infernal Machine (film)
    Infernal Machine is a 1933 American thriller film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin and Victor Jory. A bomb planted onboard a ship may go off at any moment, leaving the crew and passengers in suspense...

    , a 1933 American film directed by Marcel Varnel
  • A 1934 play "The Infernal Machine" by Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau
    Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

  • Infernal Machines
    Infernal Machines
    Infernal Machines is the first studio album by Darcy James Argue's Secret Society. The album was released May 12, 2009 by New Amsterdam Records.-Track listing:# "Phobos" 11:02# "Zeno" 7:14# "Transit" 7:01# "Redeye" 10:12# "Jacobin Club" 10:55...

    , the first studio album of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
  • Episode title from Space: 1999
    Space: 1999
    Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons and originally aired from 1975 to 1977. In the opening episode, nuclear waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side explodes in a catastrophic accident on 13 September 1999, knocking the Moon out of orbit and...

    , guest-starring Leo McKern as Companion/Voice of Gwent
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