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    The Maynard tape primer was a system designed by Edward Maynard to allow for more rapid reloading of muskets. Muskets in the early 19th century were flintlocks...
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    supplanted it, obviating the use of the insufficiently weather resistant Maynard tape primer. The Model 1855 Springfield was a rifled musket used in the mid-19th...
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    diameter) that provide the noise and smoke, effectively the same as the Maynard tape primer and percussion caps used in real firearms of the mid to late 1800s...
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    "auto-priming" systems. The "Maynard tape primer", for example, used a roll of paper "caps" much like today's toy cap gun. The Maynard tape primer was fitted to some...
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  • Maynard may refer to: Maynard (given name) Maynard (surname) Maynard, Ontario, a village in Augusta Township Maynard, Arkansas Maynard, Iowa Maynard, Kentucky...
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  • like the Springfield Model 1855, which also was equipped with the Maynard tape primer system. Since rifle muskets were meant as a direct replacement for...
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  • breechloaders. An unfired Maynard 52 caliber cartridge Maynard carbine, break action, serial # 4815 Maynard carbine system with Maynard tape-primer Rifles in the...
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    Pennsylvania, in 1850. The second model used the Maynard tape primer, and surviving examples are marked Edward Maynard - Patentee 1845. In 1851, the second model...
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    Model 1855 was the elimination of the Maynard tape primer for the Model 1861 (the Maynard primer, a self-feeding primer system, was unreliable in damp conditions...
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  • Caliber Musketoon Rifled musket: Springfield Model 1855 – .58 caliber Maynard tape primer percussion lock rifled musket. Springfield Model 1861 – .58 caliber...
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    cost of making an entire 1861 Springfield was $18.00.) In 1855 the Maynard Tape Primer System was installed on all 1855 model .58 caliber military rifles...
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  • smoothbore musketoon. Rifled musket: Springfield Model 1855 – .58 caliber Maynard tape primer percussion lock rifled musket. Springfield Model 1861 – .58 caliber...
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    1861 retaining the general form of the Model 1855, but without the Maynard tape primer mechanism and patch box. The lock plate milling machine was modified...
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    rifled musket A Confederate copy of the Springfield M1855 without Maynard tape primer. Sharps rifle The Sharps rifle was a falling-block rifle used during...
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    Winfield Scott. A late example the Butterfield revolver of 1855 used a Maynard tape primer rather than percussion caps. 640 were issued to the US Army during...
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  • Springfield and Harpers Ferry Armory. These used the less reliable Maynard tape primer firing mechanism which when damp could cause misfires, a flaw that...
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    pressure-sensitive tape took the form of surgical tape, invented by Dr. Horace Day in 1845. 1845 Maynard tape primer The Maynard tape primer is a system designed...
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    Springfield Model 1855 with Maynard tape primer mechanism...
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    issued with a square socket bayonet. The regiment did not use the Maynard tape primer in the field, but standard percussion caps. The regiment used these...
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    emerged, such as Maynard carbine and the pellet feed system employed by the Sharps carbine, which mechanised the recharging of the primer but such systems...
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    varieties and diversity of ethnomethodological investigations can be found in Maynard & Clayman's work. The relationship between ethnomethodology and conversation...
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    meditators. While travelling in America, the Maharishi met with Robert Maynard Hutchins, the head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions...
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  • Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 24 April 2018. Fricke, David (18 July 2007). "Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer: Tool Leader Speaks on Enigmatic Side Project"...
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  • American anarchist. University of California Libraries. Boston : Small, Maynard & company. Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. ©1998 John Wiley...
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    Mark N. (2010). "Iran and Russia". In Wright, Robin B. (ed.). The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy. United States Institute of Peace. p. 186...
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    journalists—including J. Anthony Lukas, Murray Fromson, Fred Graham, Jack Nelson, Robert Maynard, Ben Bradlee, Tom Wicker, and Mike Wallace, among others—to discuss the...
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  • Many Loves of Dobie Gillis debuts, featuring Bob Denver as beat character Maynard G. Krebs. How to Speak Hip: Improv pioneers Del Close and John Brent's...
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