Resource Type

1 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Improvement in Rifle-Barrels. (open access)

Improvement in Rifle-Barrels.

Patent for a "new and useful improvement in firearms" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations. The invention provides "a gun-barrel with a number of cutters or plows for grooving the ball, said cutters or plows to correspond with with the number of guides or ribs which the gun is formed" (lines 20-25).
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Littlejohn, William
System: The Portal to Texas History