Girardoni air rifle (redirect from Windbüchse)
inventor Bartolomeo Girandoni circa 1779. The weapon was also known as the Windbüchse ("wind rifle" in German). One of the rifle's more famous associations...
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Wars, and the first repeating air rifle to see military service was the Windbüchse rifle. Kalthoff repeater (about 1630) Cookson repeater (about 1650) Chelembron...
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sniper detachments using air rifles. The Austrian 1770 model was named Windbüchse (literally "wind rifle" in German). The gun was developed in 1768 or 1769...
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87–88. OCLC 12031986. Galperin, Peter (1980). "Wind und Feuer. Eine Windbüchse des Johann Peter Bosler". Deutsches Waffen-Journal (in German). 16 (4):...
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famed for his experiments with vacua and pressures, built the Madeburger Windbuchse, one of the technical wonders of its time.[citation needed] Cranked Archimedes'...
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