. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. }L gErvfc^J? J/fwu- y£>l(wk'jJ/>tf/U>w -Jb 'U33U/ &. ZB&?HZe7?&& ^°r~Sg-&Or »/> 6&..-,-il// > - ' 'v0 V , of bt^ulc_^n*^i 3§«. 3E 2 Figure 6-—False loading muzzle for rifles, patented by Alvan Clark on 24 April 1840. Drawing from patent papers. through a distant board with such precision that one would say only a single shot had been ; 12 Clark reputedly said to Joseph Henry, "You say . . 'every man ought to make himself a master in some one thing.' Well, I think I am the best rifle shot
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. }L gErvfc^J? J/fwu- y£>l(wk'jJ/>tf/U>w -Jb 'U33U/ &. ZB&?HZe7?&& ^°r~Sg-&Or »/> 6&..-,-il// > - ' 'v0 V , of bt^ulc_^n*^i 3§«. 3E 2 Figure 6-—False loading muzzle for rifles, patented by Alvan Clark on 24 April 1840. Drawing from patent papers. through a distant board with such precision that one would say only a single shot had been ; 12 Clark reputedly said to Joseph Henry, "You say . . 'every man ought to make himself a master in some one thing.' Well, I think I am the best rifle shot in the ; 13 Dissatisfied with the accuracy of common muzzle-loading rifles, Clark devised a false loading muzzle. Its purpose was to secure the patch from injury, to facilitate as tight a loading as could be wished, and to achieve as perfect a delivery as This invention, patented in 1840, con- sisted of a hollow cylinder which is fastened to the end of the muzzle 12 William B. Hawkins, article in a Boston newspaper ca. 1893, reprinted Popular Astronomy, vol. 34 (1926), p. 379. 13 Quoted in Garth Galbraith, "The American Telescope Makers," op. cit. 14 Alvan Clark, "On Rifle Shooting," The American Repertory, vol. 3 (1841), pp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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