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Title: American small arms; a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge for sportsmen and military men
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Farrow, Edward S. (Edward Samuel), b. 1855
Subjects: Firearms
Publisher: New York, The Bradford Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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being still in ex-istence, which were manufactured at the beginning of the seventeenth cen-turv. Probably the first revolver to suggest itself was one in which severalbarrels were mounted on an axis, and made to revolve by the action of thetrigger, so that their powder pans came succcessively under the action of thelock. This principle was never entirely abandoned, and in the reign of AMERICAN SMALL ARMS 23 George IV. was produced a pistol called the Mariette, which had from fourto twenty-four small barrels, bored in a solid mass of metal, made to re-volve as the trigger was drawn back. At close quarters, such a pistol woulddoubtless have been useful; but its great weight and cumbrous mechanismrendered aim extremely unsteady. Contemporaneously from the first with therevolving barrels went forth the formation of a revolving chamber or breech,pierced with several cylindrical apertures to receive the charges. Beingmade to revolve, each motion brought a chamber into line with the one bar-
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rel, common to all, whereupon the weapon was ready for use. Numerous pat-ents for this principle have been taken out, including one by the celebratedMarquis of Worcester in 1661. Various improvements were made, especiallyin the mode of causing revolution, an American, by the name of Elisha H.Collier, patenting such a weapon in the United States and England about1818. In 1835 Colonel Samuel Colt brought to a conclusion experiments ofsome years standing, and patented his world-renowned Colts revolver, whichwas a great advance on all previous attempts, and is substantially still in use.Several inventors are struggling with the problem of magazine pistols.The advantages of such an arm are great and obvious. So long as the powderchamber and the barrel are separate the revolver cannot lay claim to the titleof an arm of precision or high power. The break in the arm where the cyl-inder and barrel meet, or are supposed to meet, permits a considerable escapeof gas with a resulting loss of press
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