The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 382
appliance by which theprojectile is made to take the grooves of the gun so asto admit of no windage, and to secure the rotating move-ment; but, however interesting all this would be, it isnot within the limits of this volume, and must be passedto admit a continuation of the history of small arms. *… … GATLING GUN WITH IMPROVED FEED. the end of a stick. The first small-arm may thereforebe properly termed a hand-cannon. This kind of aweapon is fairly beheved to have been in use in the 378 riEE-AEMS AND OEDNANOE. latter part of the fourteentli century. The soldier carriedsomething with which to…
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