The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company was an American company formed in 1855 by partners Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson to develop Walter Hunt's Rocket...

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by...

was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1855, and was financed largely by Oliver Winchester. In 1856, the partners left Volcanic Repeating Arms to begin a...

with Volcanic Repeating Arms for eight months. Volcanic Repeating Arms was insolvent in late 1856, after which it was reorganized as the New Haven Arms Company...

to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company...

formed a corporation, the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, to manufacture Smith's modification of the Hunt-Jennings, the Volcanic lever-action pistol and...

stockholders and acquired the S&W division, better known as the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, in 1855. By 1857, Winchester had positioned himself as...

Volcanic Brown, one of the many nicknames of Robert Allan Brown (c. 1849–1931), a Canadian mining prospector and speculator Volcanic Repeating Arms,...

developed in the 1850s and the guns using it were sold primarily by Volcanic Repeating Arms. Hunt's Rocket Ball cartridges were severely under-powered and...

commercially successful firearm, culminating in the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. The Volcanic cartridge went one step further, adding a primer to...

to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company...

troops in June 1876. Modern replicas are produced by A. Uberti and Henry Repeating Arms in .44-40 Winchester and .45 Colt. The original Henry rifle was a sixteen-shot...

revolver – 1894) Vetterli rifle - (Switzerland – rifle – 1867/1869) Volcanic Repeating Arms (US – rifle & pistol – 1855–56) Walch Revolver (US – revolver –...

Usel caseless cartridge, 6mm Usel caseless cartridge) Volcanic Repeating Arms Rifles Volcanic Rifle (United States – unknown date – lever-action rifle...

Company in Norwich, Connecticut, to develop Volcanic Firearms, in 1855 the company was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms and was sold to Oliver Winchester. As...

of fire to six times that of muzzle loading weapons. In 1854, Volcanic Repeating Arms produced a rifle with a self-contained cartridge. In 1849, Claude-Étienne...

The Spencer repeating rifle was a 19th-century American lever-action firearm invented by Christopher Spencer. The Spencer carbine was a shorter and lighter...

A repeating firearm or repeater is any firearm (either a handgun or long gun) that is capable of being fired repeatedly before having to be manually reloaded...

success. Benjamin Tyler Henry invents the Henry rifle, the first reliable repeating rifle. Richard Jordan Gatling invents the Gatling gun, capable of firing...

Hartford, Connecticut. Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson form the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company in New England. California Gold Rush (1848–1855) Bleeding...

the Volcanic pistol were designed before the American Civil War[citation needed] , but the first significant designs were the Spencer repeating rifle...

development were repeating firearms, which could fire multiple times before reloading. However, for a number of reasons, repeating firearms did not see...

air rifle, first produced in 1779. The first mass-produced repeating firearm was the Volcanic Rifle which used a hollow bullet with the base filled with...

consensus is that the main cause of the extinction was the flood basalt volcanic eruptions that created the Siberian Traps, which released sulfur dioxide...

"Bear-ly There" February 13, 2012 (2012-02-13) Items appraised include a Volcanic Arms pistol; a World War II United States Navy gas mask; a framed letter...

referring to a weapon specifically as breech-loading is mostly limited to non-repeating firearms, including single-shots, derringers, double-barreled shotguns...

eruption of Walker Volcanics. A coarse green grey rhyodacitic intrusive with white prominent feldspar crystals appears between the arms of Lake Ginninderra...

attacked the city. Though Jaco regains custody of Watagashi, he ends up repeating the same mistake that led to the parasite's escape. 75 29 "Goku and Krillin...

European treble while being the top scorer in all three competitions, repeating Johan Cruyff's achievement with Ajax from the 1971–72 season. However...

electrical. On October 19, 1752, in a letter to England with directions for repeating the experiment, he wrote: When rain has wet the kite twine so that it...