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Phoenix Iron Works produced 1,100 wrought iron 3-inch ordnance rifles during the war. [7] Singer, Nimick and Company manufactured 6 rifles with a profile identical to the ordnance rifle, but they were made of steel and much more expensive.
The Casey family, led by Daniel Casey, and the Casey Arms business are the subjects of Iron & Fire, a reality television series on The History Channel. Daniel Casey is also featured on an episode of CarbonTV's original web-series Heartlandia, as he forges a traditional knife and goes hog hunting in the foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks.
Blakely rifle or Blakely gun is a series of rifled muzzle-loading cannon designed by British army officer Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely in the 1850s and 1860s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Blakely was a pioneer in the banding and rifling of cannon but the British army declined to use Blakely's design. [ 3 ]
The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute). [2] It features a Gatling-style rotating barrel assembly with an external power source, normally an electric motor.
Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars (Plains History Project), St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, archived from the original on May 7, 2005 Mahon, John K. (September 1958).
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The first built-up gun was designed by French artillery officer Alfred Thiéry in 1834 and tested not later than 1840. Also about 1840 another one was made by Daniel Treadwell, and yet another one was produced by Mersey Iron Works in Liverpool according to the John Ericsson's design. Sheffield architector John Frith received a patent on their ...
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