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...

the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d'Orléans and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet...

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...

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

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

it was judged too complicated to produce. The Minié ball, developed in 1847 by Claude-Étienne Minié, was based on Greener's ideas. Greener was born...

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

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...

it was difficult to clean. The soft lead Minié ball was first introduced in 1847 by Claude-Étienne Minié, a captain in the French Army. It was another...

produced a rifle with a self-contained cartridge. In 1849, Claude-Étienne Minié invented the Minié ball, the first projectile that could easily slide down...

Albert Abraham Michelson Mills bomb – William Mills Minié ball, Minié rifle – Claude-Étienne Minié Molotov cocktail – Vyacheslav Molotov Momsen Lung, Charles...

percussion caps which replace the flintlock trigger mechanism. Claude-Étienne Minié invents the Minié ball, making rifles a viable military firearm, ending the...

been credited with the invention of the hollow-base bullet: Captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the French Army and William Greener. The initial reason for developing...

fouling was solved 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...

February 7 – John Deere, American industrialist (d. 1886) February 13 – Claude-Étienne Minié, French army officer and weapon inventor (d. 1879) February 29 –...

by Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin (improvement of an earlier invention by Henri-Gustave Delvigne) before 1844. Minié rifle by Claude-Étienne Minié, first reliable...

improved designs for the Minié bullet at Harpers Ferry. The Minié bullet, introduced in 1848 by Captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the French Army, was a...

seen service in one form or another since 1722. In 1849, Claude-Étienne Minié produced the Minié rifle, although still a muzzle loader three important advances...

of the Minié ball by Claude-Étienne Minié, as Thouvenin had already suggested that a bullet with a hollowed base would be most efficient. Minié further...

the July Revolution. A test was conducted in 1849 on Claude-Étienne Minié's invention the Minié ball which would prove successful and years later be adopted...

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