| Benjamin Tyler Henry |
Article Index for Benjamin |
Website Links For Benjamin |
Information AboutBenjamin Tyler Henry |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT BENJAMIN TYLER HENRY | |
| 1821 births | |
| 1898 deaths | |
| american inventors | |
| gunsmiths | |
| american civil war industrialists | |
|
Henry was hired by Oliver Winchester at the New Haven Arms Company in the late 1850s to improve the design of the Volcanic Repeating Rifle . On October 16 , 1860 , he received a Patent on the Henry rifle, which soon proved the worth of the lever-action design on the battlefields of the Civil War , where Henry rifles were used alongside muzzle-loading Rifled Musket s such as the Springfield Model 1861 . (The first Henrys were not produced for army use until mid-1862.) Benjamin Tyler Henry continued to work at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company until at least 1873. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
|
|