Horace Smith (inventor)

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For the English poet see Horace Smith

Horace Smith (born Cheshire, Massachusetts, 1808 - died 1893) partnered with Daniel B. Wesson in Norwich, Connecticut in the early 1850s to develop the first repeating rifle, known as the Volcanic rifle. Shortly after co-founding Smith & Wesson in 1852, he patented a metallic cartridge in 1854..

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