Benjamin Tyler Henry
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title:
Benjamin Tyler Henry
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Benjamin Tyler Henry was an American gunsmith and manufacturer. He was the inventor of the Henry rifle, the first reliable lever-action repeating rifle. Henry was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1821. He apprenticed to a gunsmith as a young man and worked his way up to shop foreman at the Robins & Lawrence Arms Company of Windsor, Vermont, where he worked with Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson on a rifle known as the "Volitional Repeater". In 1854, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed a
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American gunsmith and manufacturer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tyler_Henry
date created:
2005-07-23T18:48:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T19:01:58Z
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