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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by...
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    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...
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    to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company...
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    Oliver Winchester (category Winchester Repeating Arms Company)
    stockholders and acquired the S&W division, better known as the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, in 1855. By 1857, Winchester had positioned himself as...
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  • formed a corporation, the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, to manufacture Smith's modification of the Hunt-Jennings, the Volcanic lever-action pistol and...
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  • Volcanic Brown, one of the many nicknames of Robert Allan Brown (c. 1849–1931), a Canadian mining prospector and speculator Volcanic Repeating Arms,...
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  • Usel caseless cartridge, 6mm Usel caseless cartridge) Volcanic Repeating Arms Rifles Volcanic Rifle (US – unknown date – lever-action rifle – .46 rimfire)...
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    commercially successful firearm, culminating in the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. The Volcanic cartridge went one step further, adding a primer to...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • The Spencer repeating rifle was a 19th-century American lever-action firearm invented by Christopher Spencer. The Spencer carbine was a shorter and lighter...
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    to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company...
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  • revolver – 1894) Vetterli rifle - (Switzerland – rifle – 1867/1869) Volcanic Repeating Arms (US – rifle & pistol – 1855–56) Walch Revolver (US – revolver –...
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    Company in Norwich, Connecticut, to develop Volcanic Firearms, in 1855 the company was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms and was sold to Oliver Winchester. As...
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    Radom 9×19mm Parabellum  Poland 1935–1945, 1992-present Volcanic pistol Volcanic Repeating Arms .31 caliber .41 caliber  United States 1854 Volkspistole...
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    A repeating firearm or repeater is any firearm (either a handgun or long gun) that is designed for multiple, repeated firings before the gun has to be...
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  • 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...
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    Hartford, Connecticut. Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson form the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company in New England. California Gold Rush (1848–1855) Bleeding...
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  • Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-25. "Record Belton Repeating Flintlock Fusil | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution"...
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    famous lever-action firearms, but many manufacturers (notably Henry Repeating Arms and Marlin Firearms) also produce lever-action rifles. Colt produced...
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  • success. Benjamin Tyler Henry invents the Henry rifle, the first reliable repeating rifle. Richard Jordan Gatling invents the Gatling gun, capable of firing...
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    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...
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    development were repeating firearms, which could fire multiple times before reloading. However, for a number of reasons, repeating firearms did not see...
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    right, and also enabled further revolutions in firearm designs such as repeating and self-loading firearms. Although breech-loading firearms were developed...
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    eruption of Walker Volcanics. A coarse green grey rhyodacitic intrusive with white prominent feldspar crystals appears between the arms of Lake Ginninderra...
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    consensus is that the main cause of the extinction was the flood basalt volcanic eruptions that created the Siberian Traps, which released sulfur dioxide...
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    for their steep overhangs and frequent horizontal breaks. Limestone and volcanic rock are also used for bouldering. There are many prominent bouldering...
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  • Davies and producer Phil Collinson, in which the two accidentally kept repeating each other's words. Davies realized it could be used in a mocking manner...
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