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Origins
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Later firearms evolution
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Other uses
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Military firearms
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Overview
Description
- Copper
- Brass
- Shock-sensitive explosive Explosive
- Mercury fulminate Mercury(II) fulminate
- Conduit Pipe (fluid conveyance)
- Anvil
- Rifles Rifle
- Muskets Musket
Origins
- Flintlock
- Mechanisms Flintlock mechanism
- Flint
- Steel
- Frizzen
- Matchlock
- Wheellock
- Fulminates Fulminate
- Edward Charles Howard
- Reverend
- Alexander John Forsyth
- Belhelvie
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland Aberdeenshire
- Chlorate of potash
- Sulphur Sulfur
- Charcoal
- Joseph Manton
- Joshua Shaw
- Fowling pieces Fowling piece
- Regency era
- Long guns with two barrels Double-barreled shotgun
- Twister pistols Twister pistol
- Pepper-box
- Revolver
- Meiji Meiji era
- Morges
- John Wilkes Booth
- Derringer
- Abraham Lincoln
Parallel developments
- François Prélat
- Joseph Egg Augustus Leopold Egg
- Peter Hawker
- Maynard tape primer
- Cap gun
- American Civil War
Military firearms
- Brown Bess
- M1819 Hall rifle
- Breech loading
- Colt Dragoon
- Smoothbore
- Santa Anna Antonio López de Santa Anna
- Mexican War Mexican–American War
- Existing designs Tanegashima (gun)
- Tube lock
- Augustin musket
- Lorenz rifle
- Dreyse needle gun
- Austro-Prussian War
- Franco-Prussian War
- Horse pistol
Later firearms evolution
- Cartridge Cartridge (firearms)
- Rimfire Rimfire ammunition
- Centrefire
- 1853 Enfield
- 1861 Springfield
- Firing pin
- Trapdoor Springfield
- Tabatière rifle
- Westley Richards
- Snider–Enfield
- Martini–Henry
- Bolt action
- Lee–Metford
- Repeating rifle
- Military surplus
- Colt Navy
- Remington Remington Arms
- Russo-Turkish War
- US Cavalry
- Indian Wars
- Gunfighters Gunfighter
- Shotshell primers Primer (firearm)
- Lead styphnate
Other uses
- Cartridges Cartridge (weaponry)
- Grenades Grenade
- Rocket-propelled grenades Rocket-propelled grenade
- Rescue flares Flare
- Land mine
- Fuze
- Booby-trap
- Anti-handling devices Anti-handling device
- Spring-loaded
- Detonator
- C-4 C-4 (explosive)
- TNT
- USSR
- Tripwire
- Type 99 grenade
- S-mine
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Nodes115
Edges114
Triples131
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017391
Components1
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Percussion cap
Top relations
related to Military firearms · 32
Percussion cap → America, Augustin, Austro-Prussian War, Britain, British, Brown Bess, Caplocks, Colt Dragoon, Dreyse, France, Franco-Prussian War, From, German, Hall, In Japan, Lorenz, M1819 Hall, Manton's, Mexican War, On
related to Later firearms evolution · 31
Percussion cap → After, America, American Civil War, Britain, British, Caplock, Colt Navy, Enfield, Examples, For, France, Henry, Indian Wars, Later, Lee, Martini, Metford, Remington, Russo-Turkish War, Snider
related to Parallel developments · 24
Percussion cap → According, Alexander Forsyth's, America, Army, Britain, Congress, Deboubert, English, France, François Prélat, French, Joseph Egg, Joshua Shaw, July, Lewis Winant, Predating, Prelat, Secondly, Shaw, Shaw's
related to Origins · 15
Percussion cap → Aberdeenshire, Belhelvie, Earlier, Edward Charles Howard, English-born American, Forsyth, Forsyth's, His, It, Joseph Manton, Joshua Shaw, Reverend Alexander John Forsyth, Scotland, The, This
related to Other uses · 12
Percussion cap → Alternative, C-4, Caps, Cross-sectional, German S-mine, Japanese Type, Most, Percussion, The, TNT, Triggering, USSR
related to Description · 3
Percussion cap → Inside, Pulling, The
is a · 1
Percussion cap → small cylinder of copper or brass with one closed end
related to External links · 1
Percussion cap → How
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Important terminology
percussion cap caplock used flintlock primer firearms hammer copper nipple made system caps mechanism invention gun powder firing early pistols
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Percussion cap | is a | small cylinder of copper or brass with one closed end | 0.90 | text |
| mercury fulminate | instance of | Inside the closed end is a small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive material | 0.80 | text |
| the matchlock | instance of | The flintlock mechanism replaced older ignition systems | 0.80 | text |
| wheellock | instance of | The flintlock mechanism replaced older ignition systems | 0.80 | text |
| but all were prone to misfire in wet weather | instance of | The flintlock mechanism replaced older ignition systems | 0.80 | text |
| the 1853 Enfield | instance of | For muskets | 0.80 | text |
| 1861 Springfield | instance of | For muskets | 0.80 | text |
| this involved installing a firing pin in place of the nipple | instance of | For muskets | 0.80 | text |
| and a trapdoor in the breech to accept the new bullets | instance of | For muskets | 0.80 | text |
| the Colt Navy | instance of | military surplus Sniders were purchased as hunting and defensive weapons by British colonists and trusted local natives.Caplock revolvers | 0.80 | text |
| Remington were also widely converted during the late 19th century | instance of | military surplus Sniders were purchased as hunting and defensive weapons by British colonists and trusted local natives.Caplock revolvers | 0.80 | text |
| by replacing the existing cylinder with one designed for modern ammunition | instance of | military surplus Sniders were purchased as hunting and defensive weapons by British colonists and trusted local natives.Caplock revolvers | 0.80 | text |
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