Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 287
turn bythe action of pulling the trigger, which at the same REVOLVERS AND MINIE RIFLES. 271 time draws back the hammer. By this arrangement,the whole of the six loaded chambers may be dis-charged in three seconds, whilst the pistol continuespresented. The latest improvements in Revolvers were… … working parts round the lock exposed to view, to-gether with the shape of the revolving chamberedbreech. In this improved Revolver, the force required topull back the hammer, a^ is regulated by a double 272 GREAT FACTS. spring, w^ so as to diminish as the hammer is drawnback; and at the moment of…
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