Patent Model - Improvement in Fire-Arms
Maker and role
Charles Brown (b.1796, d.1878), Patentee
Production date
Sep 18 1860
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Brass, steel
Measurements
3 1/2 x 11 x 3 1/8" (8.9 x 27.9 x 7.9cm)
Description
Brown's patent enabled "a piece of ordnance to be fired repeatedly by the act of its being drawn over the ground, so that it may be made very effective in advancing to meet or pursue or in retiring from before an enemy." (Patent Number 30,045)
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Object number
2015.14.343a,b
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