Invention of the musket
Invention of The Musket - Evolution of Weapons
The musket was the first usable rifle that soldiers could carry into battle. It was developed in Spain in the 1500’s. It could fire a metal ball that could seriously kill or hurt someone. The first muskets were very large weighing 40 pounds and being over 6 feet long. They were very hard to use. ____
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Today, Eli Whitney from Connecticut contracted to manufacture 10,000 muskets for the U.S. Army. The process Whitney will use is much different from how guns were made in the past. At the time, a single person, without standardized measurements, would make an entire musket.
[DOC File]11-1 Early Industry and Inventions
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The Virginia Model Musket truly is; ‘The Rifle-Musket that Never Was!” _____ While some writers and historians credit Sam Colt with designing the Special Model of 1861 Rifle-Musket, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that indicated the Virginia Model Musket served as the inspiration for the U.S. Special Model of 1861.
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Chapter 11 – Early Industry and Inventions. Section 1. One American’s Story. 1. Samuel Slater. brought the secrets of British textile factories to America.
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Whitney sought a better way to make guns. In 1801, he went to Washington with a box containing piles of musket parts. He took a part from each pile and assembled a musket in seconds; He had just demonstrated the use of . interchangeable parts, part that are exactly alike. Machines that produced exactly matching parts soon became standard in ...
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Advances in weaponry and the more effective use of gunpowder continued. The invention of the harquebus was a watershed invent. ion. in weaponry. The harquebus is also known as the arquebus or the hackbut. This is a very primitive firearm used between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The musket is a successor of the harquebus.
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