1840 - Guns begin to use pin-fire cartridges. 1847 - The telegraph is invented. 1850 - True shotguns in common use. In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched out. This period ...

Lonnie Johnson: I'm Lonnie Johnson. I'm an inventor. The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it would be successful.

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first ...

The Lewis gun’s invention is credited to Isaac Newton Lewis, who designed and built his machine gun... It must be an automatic rifle, Robert Jordan thought. “How much does it weigh?” ...

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A professor at RIT is collaborating with a fellow researcher to design a firearm that could lock if the user’s blood alcohol content level is deemed unsafe.

“Later, while working in the prison blacksmith shop, he used scrap iron and wood to make gun parts,” the Raleigh-based museum wrote. “His clever inventions impressed the warden, who allowed ...