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firing mechanisms and opened the way to modern firing methods. The new mechanism used a magazine filled with fulminate primer, which would deliver a small amount of priming powder near the gun breech every time the magazine was cocked. Since the fulminate powder was highly sensitive to humidity,
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priming medium to be fired by the blow of a percussion hammer. The new method permitted the abandonment of
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mechanism and opened the way to modern firearms. This followed the discovery of fulminates by
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percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the
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608:Crimean War
584:Operational
79:Louis XVIII
54:Right image
653:Categories
496:Ammunition
466:Redoutable
227:Thouvenin
214:Small arms
102:flint-lock
87:flint-lock
45:Left image
674:Gunsmiths
446:Ironclad
121:in 1820.
119:Deloubert
93:in 1800.
83:fulminate
77:and then
71:Louis XVI
47:: Lepage
457:Plongeur
430:Napoléon
420:Warships
75:Napoléon
543:Systems
484:Gymnote
347:Cannons
107:varnish
58:Rifling
49:carbine
486:(1888)
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468:(1876)
459:(1863)
450:(1858)
448:Gloire
441:(1854)
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231:(1846)
586:usage
125:Notes
439:Lave
113:by
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