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    Daniel Baird Wesson (May 18, 1825 – August 4, 1906) was an American inventor and firearms designer. He helped develop several influential firearm designs...
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  • as Dan Wesson Firearms. He was the great-grandson of inventor and firearms maker Daniel Baird Wesson, a co-founder of Smith & Wesson. Wesson was born...
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    was an American company formed in 1855 by partners Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson to develop Walter Hunt's Rocket Ball ammunition and lever action mechanism...
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  • Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and...
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  • York. Dan Wesson Firearms is known for its revolver expertise and for some types of ammunition it has introduced over the years. Daniel B. Wesson II worked...
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    Horace Smith (inventor) (category Smith & Wesson)
    and businessman. He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named "Smith & Wesson", the first of which was eventually reorganized...
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  • Dan or Daniel Wesson may refer to: Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), inventor and co-founder of Smith & Wesson firearms Daniel B. Wesson II (1916–1978), his...
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    with a total production of 77,020. Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson founded the Smith & Wesson Company in Norwich, Connecticut, to develop Volcanic...
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    patent on the revolver was set to expire in 1856, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson were researching a prototype for a metallic cartridge revolver. When...
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    with Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson on a rifle known as the "Volitional Repeater". In 1854, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed a new company with...
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  • outfielder Cynthia Wesson (1886–1981), American athlete, coach, physical educator, granddaughter of Daniel B. Wesson Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), co-inventor...
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    Streets, Central Park, New York City (1898), with sculptor Daniel Chester French. Daniel B. Wesson residence, Springfield, Massachusetts (1898, destroyed...
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    The Smith & Wesson Model 640 revolver is a 5-shot snubnosed revolver that is chambered in either .38 Special or .357 Magnum caliber introduced in 1989...
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    .357 Magnum (category Smith & Wesson cartridges)
    Smith & Wesson developed the .357 Magnum, with Douglas B. Wesson (grandson of co-founder Daniel B. Wesson) leading the effort within Smith & Wesson, along...
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  • With few exceptions (MTs-116M) which were created for combat. Smith & Wesson markets gun accessories, handcuffs, safes, apparel, watches, collectibles...
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    Know About Smith & Wesson". americanhunter.org. Retrieved September 20, 2019. Daniel Wesson's grandson, Colonel Douglas B. Wesson Supica, Jim; Nahas,...
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    and Daniel B. Wesson signed an agreement for the exclusive use of the Rollin White Patent at a rate of 25 cents for every revolver. Smith & Wesson began...
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  • rifles. Two employees working at Robbins & Lawrence: Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson improved the design and sold it as the "Smith-Jennings Repeating Rifle"...
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    ACP cartridges. Daniel B. Wesson's son Joseph Wesson invented and patented the half-moon clip, which was assigned to Smith & Wesson, but at the request...
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    construction, notably Daniel B. Wesson (of Smith & Wesson fame), Charles and George Merriam (of Merriam-Webster fame), and Daniel Harris, who owned and...
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    under the sponsorship of Daniel B. Wesson, to provide a place of worship for French Huguenots employed by Smith & Wesson. It was listed on the National...
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    with Daniel B. Wesson in Norwich in the early 1850s to develop the first repeating rifle, known as the Volcanic rifle; the two founded Smith & Wesson in...
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    this patent (1,565 of April 24, 1840) was made to Edwin Wesson, brother of Daniel B. Wesson. In 1880, Clark was elected as a member to the American Philosophical...
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    Straw John Edgar Thomson Cornelius Vanderbilt Ezra Warner (inventor) Daniel B. Wesson Rollin White Amos Whitney Oliver Winchester John F. Winslow George...
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  • for over a century from 1871 to 1986. Frank Wesson, brother of Daniel B. Wesson who co-founded Smith & Wesson, started a firearms manufacturing firm in...
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    Wesson was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Frank Luther Wesson and Sarah K. Lovell Wesson. Her grandfather was inventor Daniel B....
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    well as from private companies such as Smith & Wesson, established by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson. Similarly, the industrial economy led Thomas and...
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  • Thomas James Smith and nephew Horatio Nelson Smith Smith & Wesson – Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson Soennecken – Friedrich Soennecken Sopwith Aviation Company...
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    rifles. Two employees working at Robbins & Lawrence: Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson improved the design and sold it as the "Smith-Jennings Repeating Rifle"...
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  • industrialist who founded F.E. Reed & Co. Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), gunsmith, co-founder of Smith & Wesson John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925), artist Edith...
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