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Contents - Index:

• Pages: 309

• American Breech-Loading Small Arms 1872
• Charles B. Norton
• CIIAPTER I.-EARLY INVENTIONS -
• Opinion of Napoleon Ill -Early Breech-loaders -Hall's invention
• ll-Breech-Ioaders in the War -Reports of War Department State
• Reports .
• CHAPTER II.-THE REMINGTON SYSTEM
• First appearance -Use in Navy -st. Louis Board State of New
• York -Austrian Tests -Denmark -England S-Greece
• -Spain a-France -French Exposition -Dion Works
• Description of System -Strength of System -Belgian Trial
• -Targets -Pistol .
• CHAPTER IIT.-THE PEABODY SYSTEM
• Origin of Arm -St. Louis Board -Rommnia -Belgium
• -Holland -Prussia l-Austria -New York -Connecticut
• -Construction of Arm -Manual of Arm -Traansformation
• {l-Martini's Infringement -Targets ll-Imprved .
• CHAPTER IV.-THE WARD-BuRTON SYSTEM:
• United States Report -New York trial -t. Louis Board Description
• -English Small Arms Committee -Construction
• l-United States Model -Dismounting .-Magazine Arm
• l-Targets ..
• CHAPTER V.-THE SPRINGFIELD SYSTEM -
• Transformation {Il-Nomenclature -Directions for use .
• CHAPTFR VI.-THE JOSLYN-ToMES SYSTEM:
• First used in the War -Description l-United States trial -Range,
• etc.,
• CHAPTER VII.-THE BERDAN SYSTEM
• Transformation -Russian Berdan tl-Description .
• CHAPTER VIII.-SMITH & WESSON REVOLVERS
• Patents -New Pattern -Demand abroad -Dodge's Improvement
• -Description -Targem .
• CHAPTER IX.-THE WHITNEY SYSTEM-EARNEST SYSTEM
• Eli Whitney l-The Whitneyville Armory -Safety and Simplicity
• l-The Earnest System -Construction -Explanation of
• Plates -Paper Cartridges -Application of Screw -Safety
• -Disconnecting Hammer .
• CHAPTER X.-V ARlOUS SYSTEMS
• The Colt System -The Milbank System -The Spencer System
• -The Maynard System -The Hammond System -The
• Roberta' System -The Ball-Lamson System -The Broughton
• System -The Meigs System .
• CHAPTER XL-THE GATLING GUN
• Origin of Invention -France -Indiana Report -Ordnance
• Report -NavaJ Report -Description -Range Baden
• trial -Advantages ~-English Report -Experimenm
• -Targets -Directions -Camel Gun .
• CHAPTER XII.-CARTRIDGES
• Importance of -Centre-Fire ~Union Metallic Cartridge Company
• -Berdan Central-Fire Cartridge -Patent -Rnssia
• -:-Spain -Models -Loading Machine -Safety
• -Boxer Cartridge -Danger of Boxer Cartridge -Daw's Central-
• Fire Cartridge }-Cha.ssepot Cartridge -Needle Gnn Cartridge
• :-The Meigs Cartridge -Reloading Cartridge Burton
• Cartridge .
• APPENDIX
• W. C. Dodge's Letter -Adoption of AmeJ."ican Patents in England
• -Gen. De Peyster's Letter -Ferguson' Rifle SOl}-Fel•guson's
• Patent .