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Johann Nikolaus Dreyse (desde 1864, von Dreyse ). Armero alemán ( Sömmerda, Turingia, 1787 - íd., 1867), inventor del fusil de aguja. 1 . Hijo de un cerrajero, aprendió el oficio de su padre y pronto demostró un gran interés por la mecánica y las armas de fuego.
- 9 de diciembre de 1867 (80 años), Sömmerda (Alemania)
- Armería y cerrajería
Known for. designing the Dreyse needle gun. Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 as the Leichte Perkussions-Gewehr M 1841 ...
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The first types of needle gun made by Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse were muzzle-loading, with a firing pin consisting of a long needle driven by a coiled conchoidal spring that fired the internal percussion cap on the base of the sabot. His adoption of the bolt-action breech-loading principle combined with this igniter system gave the rifle its milita...
The cartridge used with this rifle consisted of the paper case, the bullet, the percussion cap and the black powdercharge. The 15.4 mm (0.61 in) bullet was shaped like an acorn, with the broader end forming a point and the primer attached to its base. The bullet was held in a paper case known as a sabot, which separated from the bullet as it exited...
British trials in 1849–51 showed that: 1. The spring that drove the needle was delicate. 2. When the needle was dirty, the rifle tended to misfire. Colonel Hawker considered that a new needle was required every 12 shots. 3. When the gun was heated and foul, operating the bolt required much strength. 4. The barrel tended to wear at the junction with...
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Needle-Gun". Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Förster, Stig; Nagler, Jörg (1997). On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871. Cambridge: German Historical Institute. ISBN 0-521-56071-3.
A-R-West, Leonard & Guy (2019). The Dreyse MILITARY NEEDLE-IGNITION SYSTEM, an illustrated history (First ed.). West Sussex, England: Woodfield Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84683-190-4.Rolf Wirtgen (Ed.) Das Zündnadelgewehr - Eine militärtechnische Revolution im 19.Jhd., Herford 1991 (In-depth German monograph on Dreyse and the development of his weapon in historical context)John Walter (2006). Rifles of the World. Krause Publications. pp. 102–106. ISBN 978-0-89689-241-5.[permanent dead link]Oyvind Flatnes (2013). From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms. Crowood Press. pp. 125–130. ISBN 978-1847975935.- Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse
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Nikolaus von Dreyse was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. The son of a locksmith, Dreyse worked from 1809 to 1814 in the Parisian gun factory of Jean-Samuel Pauly, a Swiss who designed several experimental breech-loading military rifles. Returning to Sömmerda, he in 1824 founded a
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Johann Nikolaus Dreyse (1787-1867) comenzó a desarrollar un sistema de retrocarga, basado en un diseño hecho años antes por Jean Samuel Pauly, y luego de múltiples experimentos, concluyó el diseño del mismo en 1836.
18 de ene. de 2019 · Dreyse Needle-gun, m/1841, Prussia. The gun was designed by Prussian firearms manufacturer Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse. The development of the rifle was shrouded in secrecy by the Prussians as they didn’t want their enemies to be aware of the ace they held up their sleeve.
25 de oct. de 2010 · The gun was the invention of the gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse (1787-1867), who, beginning in 1824, had conducted multiple experiments, and in 1836 produced the complete needle-gun. The first types of needle-gun made by Dreyse were muzzle-loading, the novelty lying in the long needle driven by a coiled spring which fired the ...
