Showing posts with label Industrial Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Industrial Revolution. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2011

The last flintlocks

The Prussian Jager rifle and the Mississippi rifle were examples of weapons built by countries that did not have a large industrial base. The British, by contrast, who were entering the Industrial Revolution, embarked on more systematic weapons production and design rationalization with their Short Land Pattern and India Pattern muskets.