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Military Rifles in the Age of Transition
(Non-U.S.) Black Powder, Metallic Cartidge, Military Rifles
1865 to 1890
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SIGNIFICANT DESIGNERS & INVENTORS OF THE ERA
Throughout the "Age of Transition" there were many designers and inventors that hard huge impacts on firearm development throughout Europe. This list is designed to provide a little information on each person.
Augusto Albini (w. Francis Braendlin): Insert Text about him here
Photo Credit: https://lamaddalena.info/augusto-albini/
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Edouard de Beaumont of Maastricht: Insert Text about him here
Photo Credit: https://www.wikiwand.com/nl/Beaumontgeweer
Col. Hiram Berdan: Insert Text about him here
Photo Credit: By Unknown author - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: LC-DIG-cwpb-07360, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5733204
Rudolph Amsler (w. Issac Milbank): Insert Text about him here
Francis Braendlin (w. Augusto Albini): Insert Text about him here
Joseph-Hugo Comblain: Insert Text about him here
General Gehendra Shumsher* (adaptation of Westley Richards*): Insert Text about him here
Col. Basile Gras*: Insert Text about him here
General Castro Guedes Dias: Insert Text about him here
Alexander Henry: Insert Text about him here
Benjamin Tyler Henry (Winchester): Insert Text about him here
Jakob Smith Jarmann: Insert Text about him here
Ole Herman Johannes Krag (w. Axel Petersson): Insert Text about him here
Karel Krnka: Insert Text about him here
Alfred von Kropatschek: Insert Text about him here
James Paris Lee: Insert Text about him here
Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher: Insert Text about him here
(Lund, Landmark?)
Friederich von Martini*
Peter Paul & Wilhelm Mauser
Issac Milbank (w. Rudolph Amsler)
William Montgomery Storm (ahead of his time) (https://www.collectorsfirearms.com/blog/post/mont-storm-breech-loading-cartridge-conversions.html
Major Murata Tsuneyoshi*
Major Efstathios Mylonas (*?)
Henry O. Peabody
General Benjamin S. Roberts*
Joseph Rider (Remington)
François Eugène Schneider (w. Jacob Snider) check Patent #69,941
Jacob Snider (w. François Eugène Schneider)
Christopher Spencer
Terssen [Lieutenant Colonel TERSSEN E.J.B belonged to the Belgian artillery]
[lieutenant-colonel Terssen (ci-contre), directeur de la M.A.E.]
Johann Friedrich Vetterli
Franz (???) Wänzl
Johann-Ludwig Werder
Franz Josef Werndl
William Westley Richards* (Martini* Improvements)
* = contributed improvements rather than unique designs