Loader

Examples

• Among the earliest fire-arms of this period one was invented which was a breech-loader and revolver. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Every variety of haying machine, from side-delivery rake and tedder to sweep rake and loader, came eventually to make hay-making easy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Blanchard was a contemporary of Hall, and Hall, to perfect his breech-loader, was the first to invent machines for making its various parts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• History of the Breech Loader and Metallic Cartridges. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The single breech-loader is now being succeeded by the magazine gun, by which a supply of cartridges in a chamber is automatically fed into the barrel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As the arquebus succeeded the bow and arrow, so the musket, a smooth and single-barrel muzzle-loader with a flint-lock and a wooden ramrod, succeeded the arquebus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But it was not until fixed ammunition came into use that the breech-loader really came to stay--and that was only the other day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Springfield, has been remodelled as a magazine loader. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then came another great development, the breech-loader. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If clover is to be used I would recommend that a hay-loader be tried for the purpose of picking it up just as left by the mower. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I have hopes that some form of hay-loader will do this work satisfactorily. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It was a large, short, funnel-shaped muzzle-loader, and loaded with nails, slugs, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Modern magazine guns permit twenty-five to thirty shots a minute as single loaders, and besides they hold in reserve five cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Breech-loaders were hardly new. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So proficient are these loaders that a freight car is loaded in twenty minutes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• About 1841 the celebrated Needle Gun was invented in Prussia, and its superiority over all muzzle-loaders was demonstrated in 1848 in the first Schleswig-Holstein war. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some were breech-loaders, having a removable chamber at the breech into which the charge of powder was inserted behind the ball. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Maynard rifle, first patented May 27, 1851, No. 8,126, was one of the earliest practical forms of breech-loaders. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• By the Berdan system, these were turned into breech-loaders at the Ilion plant, the breech being cut out of the barrel and a breech-block inserted, swinging upward and forward. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The early breech-loaders had been discarded, as it was not known how to make the breech gas-tight, and the explosions rendered the guns more dangerous to their users than to the enemy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Formerly breech-loaders were confined to the heaviest ordnance; now they are a part of the lightest field pieces. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Caps and Breech-Loaders. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You remember that the Civil War began with muzzle-loaders and ended with breech-loaders. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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