Cased Colt Dragoon Model 1848 (1st issue) Revolver, England, 1848 / 68. Creator: UnknownCased Colt Dragoon Model 1848 (1st issue) Revolver, England, 1848/68
Munitions Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, c1870s. Artist: Theodore R DavisMunitions Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, c1870s. Machines speeded up production after the Civil War. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven
Colt Frontier revolver, invented by Samuel Colt (1814-62), c1850. Fig. 2: the breech disc. Fig. 3: the cartridge in section. From The Mechanics Magazine. Also known as the Colt Peacemaker
Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor of the Colt revolver, 1856. The American inventor and industrialist invented the weapon which, after the Mexican war of 1846-8, was adopted by the US army
Cartridge Box and Bullet, c. 1937. Creator: Manuel G. RunyanCartridge Box and Bullet, c. 1937
Bullet Mold, c. 1938. Creator: Manuel G. RunyanBullet Mold, c. 1938
Pellet Crossbow, Europe, 1580 / 1610. Creator: UnknownPellet Crossbow, Europe, 1580/1610
Miniature Black Madonna, 1914-1918. Creator: UnknownA trench art sculpture featuring a Black Madonna figurine with outstretched arms in the hollow interior of a bullet casing
Bullet Mold, c. 1940. Creator: William FrankBullet Mold, c. 1940
Kurd Man, ca. 1893. Creator: Antonio Zeno ShindlerKurd Man, ca. 1893
Bullet Mold, c. 1937. Creator: Majel G. ClaflinBullet Mold, c. 1937
Fired On, 1907. Creator: Frederic RemingtonFired On, 1907
Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts (Harpers Weekly, Vol. V), July 20, 1861
Excised Knee Joint. A Round Musket Ball in the Inner Condyle of the Right Femur [Gardiner Lewis, Company B, Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers], 1866-67
Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets), 1884 or earlier. Creator: Jean-Leon GeromeCafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets), 1884 or earlier
Sectional Plan of French Mitrailleuse, c1872. Creator: UnknownSectional Plan of French Mitrailleuse (with the Cartridges in the Barrels and the Closer screwed home), c1872. Diagram of machine gun used by the French army during the Franco-Prussian War of
The Gatling Mitrailleuse, c1872. Creator: UnknownCartridge from a Gatling gun, c1872. Diagram of cartridge used in the Gatling gun, an early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapon invented by Richard Gatling
Chassepot Breech-Loader - Longitudinal Section of Cartridge, c1872. Creator: UnknownChassepot Breech-Loader - Longitudinal Section of Cartridge, c1872. Diagram of a cartridge for the Chassepot bolt action military breechloading rifle, officially known as Fusil modele 1866
Shaykh Hamid Pasha, c1906-1913, (1915). Creator: Mark SykesShaykh Hamid Pasha, c1906-1913, (1915). Group portrait of a sheikh and his retinue, in a village...which is situated perhaps two and half miles outside Bashkala
Ahmed Agha, c1906-1913, (1915). Creator: Mark SykesAhmed Agha, c1906-1913, (1915). Kurdish men with rifles and bullet belts, Shirwan, (eastern Turkey). A little further on we met Ahmed Agha and fifty gunmen
Kurds of Shaykh Sadiks Army, c1906-1913, (1915). Creator: Mark SykesKurds of Shaykh Sadiks Army, c1906-1913, (1915). Kurdish men with rifles and bullet belts, Khatuna, (eastern Turkey). From " The Caliphs Last Heritage
On the Chemin des Dames, northern France, c1914-c1918. Shelter with German helmet and magazines of bullets. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I
Kurdish mountain brigands, Armenia, 1902. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. I. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1902]
The Spencer Magazine Gun Used in the American Civil War, 1884he Spencer Magazine Gun Used in the American Civil War. The Spencer repeating rifle was a manually operated lever-action, repeating rifle
In the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, c1880. The shot and shell foundry, the shot yard, bullet making, carriage department, turning room, and forging a breech coil
Chamberlain and Paugus at Lovewells Fight, 1725, (1872). John Chamberlain shoots Paugus. John Lovewell, (1691-1725) was a British explorer and soldier who lived in Dunstable, now Nashua
Louis Botha, Afrikaner soldier and statesman, c1900. Botha (1862-1919), pictured here posing with his decorated Mauser rifle
