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Scientific American, Vol. 45, No. 19 (1881) (1881)

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cker, cally a distance of 245 feet, and the course was laid in fifteen but greatly inferior to it in rapidity of firing. Self-cockers, ‘hours. In other words, two feet of the monument was built as usually made, are clumsy and particularly dangerous to in that time. You haven’t any idea of the… … trigger, and the slots, dd, in whether the engineer con- SAFETY SELF-COCKING REVOLVER. nected with the Washington the guard to receive them, are placed so that the trigger can- Monument will ever have any not be folded back into the guard when the hammer is special recognition by the government. He…

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