Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848 and ceasing production in 1881. They were …

Dec 14, 2023 · In 1848, Sharps received his first breechloadingfirearms patent. By 1851, the gunmaker had struck out on his own and formed the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in …

Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was the manufacturer of the Sharps Rifle. The company was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in …

General Harney (Figure 1) was an early military proponent of Sharps firearms. He saw the need for Sharps’ advanced design and the advantages it brought to mounted troops. He, as was …

In 1854 he moved back to Pennsylvania with the money he earned from Robbins & Lawrence and opened his own firm in Philadelphia using the name C. Sharps & Company. There he built his …

Feb 3, 2022 · The Sharps was one of the few breechloading carbines that made the transition from percussion to self-contained metallic cartridges. It's falling block breech design and beefy …

Sep 23, 2010 · Christian Sharps was a cantankerous but brilliant inventor who, in September 1848, patented a single-shot, lever-activated, breech-loading rifle with a vertically sliding …

The seven patents described below in chronological order show the evolution of the Sharps Carbine. a The Sharps design favored simplicity for its users; however, that required a high …

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed the two states to decide the issue of slavery by a popular ballot. The fight in Kansas was so intense that the state earned the nickname of …

Christian Sharps (January 2, 1810 – March 12, 1874) was the inventor of the Sharps rifle, the first commercially successful breech-loading rifle and the Sharps Four Barrel Pistol, and Sharps …