Machine-Gun Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Machine-Gun
  • Added Title Machine Gun

Creator

  • Inventor: Greer, John William
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: John William Greer of Austin Texas. ; J. W. Greer

Contributor

  • Witness: Bailey, B. P.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Connerly, Fred T.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1890-07-01
  • Acceptance Date: 1890-07-01
  • Submission Date: 1889-04-11

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for an improvement in a "battery of guns, and has for its object the operating of any one of the guns by the recoil of another and in succession as long as may be deemed necessary" (lines 7-11).
  • Physical Description: 7 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: weaponry
  • Keyword: guns

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Travis County - Austin

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 00431515
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth172409

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