The Minié ball, or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle, for muzzle-loading...

The Minié rifle was an important infantry rifle of the mid-19th century. A version was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847...

(simply called rifles in modern terminology) using the Minié ball (invented by Claude-Étienne Minié in 1849) became common. The development of breech-loading...

the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin. Minié served...

West Virginia, improved the Minié ball further by eliminating the metal cup in the bottom of the bullet. The Minié ball first saw widespread use in the...

buck and ball against the 10 by 10 inches (25 cm × 25 cm) target result in 79 buckshot hits and 37 ball strikes, as opposed to 48 Minié ball hits in 50...

invention of the Minié ball which ultimately solved the problem of the slow-loading rifle. Conically-shaped with a hollow base, the Minié ball was narrow enough...

by the Minié ball, which was invented in 1846 by French inventor Claude-Étienne Minié. Despite its name, the Minié ball was not a round ball at all,...

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the American Civil War. It exploited the advantages of the new conical Minié ball, which could be deadly at over 1,000 yards (910 m). It was a standard...

the Minié Ball, being conical and longer than it was broad, had much more mass than a round ball of the same caliber. A smaller caliber Minié ball could...

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famous was the Minié system, invented by French Army Captain Claude-Étienne Minié, which relied on a conical bullet (known as a Minié ball) with a hollow...

similar ball design called the Chace ball (after its inventor W.B. Chace) was developed in 1861 in the United States but was not adopted. Minié ball Westwood...

loading and make the weapon useless until cleaned. The invention of the Minié ball in 1847 resolved the technical disadvantages and allowed the rifle to...

reliability. The barrel was 40 inches (100 cm) long, firing a .58 caliber Minié ball, and the total weight was approximately 9 pounds (4.1 kg). The Model 1861...

Minié or Minie may refer to: Claude-Étienne Minié (1804-1879), French Army officer and weapons designer Minié rifle, designed by Claude-Étienne Minié...

role in the war and benefited from technological advances such as the Minié ball, which could kill a target up to a half mile away and was accurate at...

initial seal and to hold powder in place during loading. The Minié ball replaced the round ball in most firearms, especially for military use, in the 1840s...

dramatically. The Minié ball allowed easy loading of a slightly undersized skirted projectile that would expand to seal; or a loose-fitting round ball would use...

rifled musket. Born from the development of the percussion cap and the Minié ball, rifled muskets had much greater range than smoothbore muskets while being...

balls. Early slugs were heavier in front than in the rear, similar to a Minié ball, to provide aerodynamic stabilization. Rifled barrels, rifled slugs and...

cartridge. The hollow, like that of the Minie ball, served to seal the bullet into the bore, but Rocket Ball put the cavity to further use. By packing...

the development of mass production and new technologies, such as the Minié ball, allowed European armies to gradually equip all their infantrymen with...

in Coahoma County, Mississippi Minié ball "'The Minnie Ball House' Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org. ""The Minnie Ball House" - Mississippi Historical...

diabolo-shaped pellets or spherical shots called BBs, although in recent years Minié ball-shaped cylindro-conoidal projectiles called slugs are gaining more popularity...

taken up in France, and in 1849 Claude-Étienne Minié adopted Greener's design and produced the "Minié ball". Glossary of firearms terminology Of Arms and...

maintain accuracy, the slug pellet is cylindro-conoidally shaped like a Minié ball and relies predominantly on spin-stabilisation from a rifled barrel. Because...

methods to improve the rifled gun, particularly ball grooves (not to be confused with the Minié ball). Captain Tamisier obtained a patent in 1841 for...

cannelure may be pressed into or cast with the bullet or case. In the Minié ball the purpose of the cannelure is to hold a lubricant. Cannelures for this...