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Wheellock

A wheellock, wheel-lock, or wheel lock is a friction-wheel mechanism which creates a spark that causes a firearm to fire. It was the next major development in firearms technology after the matchlock, and the first self-igniting firearm. Its name is from its rotating steel wheel to provide ignition. Developed in Europe around 1500, it was used alongside…

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Wheellock

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples53
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
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Wheellock

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related to External links · 18
Wheellock → About, Art, Baltwarar Dressler, Century German Wheellock Pistol, Dated, Extensive Scrimshaw Inlays, Firearms, Images, It, Liechtenstein, Lock Archived, Michel Mann, Miniature Wheellock, Nuremberg, PDF, Prince, The Metropolitan Museum, Wayback Machine
related to history · 15
Wheellock → Austria, Chinese, Drawings, Europe, German, However, Huolongjing, Leonardo, Martin Loffelholz, The, The German, There, Though, Vinci, When
related to Operation · 9
Wheellock → As, If, Nor, On, Rather, That, The, There, This
related to Features · 4
Wheellock → Among, Early, That, The
related to The pan · 3
Wheellock → As, Operation, The
related to Design · 2
Wheellock → The, When
related to The "dog" · 2
Wheellock → Flint, The

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Wheellockrelated to DesignThe0.60section
Wheellockrelated to DesignWhen0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksMiniature Wheellock0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksMichel Mann0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksNuremberg0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksLock Archived0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksAbout0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksFirearms0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksPrince0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksLiechtenstein0.60section
Wheellockrelated to External linksThe Metropolitan Museum0.60section

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