James Richard Haskell
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James Richard Haskell
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James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun". In 1854 Haskell began experiments with steel breech-loading rifled cannon and breech-loading small-arms, manufacturing 25 of the former, which were purchased by the Mexic
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2008-06-04T14:47:39Z
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2024-09-12T20:28:21Z
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