Research Press has started publishing an ‘Index of 19th Century Riflemen’. The focus is primarily on riflemen winning national competitions or being selected for international teams.
Research Press has started publishing an ‘Index of 19th Century Riflemen’. The focus is primarily on riflemen winning national competitions or being selected for international teams.
Approached in 1854 by Lord Hardinge to investigate ‘the mechanical principles applicable in the construction of an efficient weapon,’ Whitworth’s experiments revolutionised rifle design.
The Times wrote in Halford’s obituary: “The country owes to him the debt which is due to a man who made the science of rifles, as well as the practice of rifle-shooting the main pursuit of his life, who, without thought of pecuniary advantage, laboured without ceasing to discover all that could be discovered about the infantry weapon and to bring that weapon to a state of perfection.”
I regret to notice the death of that well-known Scotchman Mr. Alexander Henry, the inventor of the gun barrel the revolutionised the small-arm for defensive and sporting purposes.
