The Repeating Rifle
- ISBN-10
- 0791074528
- ISBN-13
- 9780791074527
- Category
- Rifles
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Author
- Samuel Willard Crompton
Description
Representing new levels of technical achievement, the invention of the repeating rifle no longer required soldiers to be excellent marksmen. The carnage of the first major war to utilize this new technology, World War I, demonstrates its effectiveness.
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