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A history of firearms / Harold L. Peterson ; illustrated by Daniel D. Feaser.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TS533 .P472 1961
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Harold L. (Harold Leslie), 1922-1978, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Firearms--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Firearms.
- Physical Description:
- 56 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- monochrome
- illustration
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : C. Scribner's Sons, [1961]
- Summary:
- The development of firearms from the earliest known gun dated 1326.
- Contents:
- The origin of firearms
- Hand cannon
- The matchlock
- The wheel lock
- Flint arms
- The percussion cap
- Rifling
- Breechloaders and repeaters
- Ammunition
- Guns and safety.
- ISBN:
- 0684923084
- 9780684923086
- OCLC:
- 1299542
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