Here is a partial timeline of 19th century
weaponry.
1818: Invention of the revolver
1825:
Percussion-cap gun invented with tube leading directly into the gun
barrel.
1835: Invention of the Colt handgun, the first multi-shot
revolver
1840: First use of pin-fire cartridges
1850: Invention of
the shotgun
1859: First use of full rim-fire cartridges
1860:
Invention of the Spencer repeating carbine
1861: Breech-loaded guns
introduced
1862: Invention of the Gatling gun
1871: Invention of
the cartridge revolver
1873: Invention of the Winchester
rifle
1877: The double-action revolver is introduced.
1879: Patent
of the Lee box magazine
1892: Invention of the automatic
handgun
1893: Invention of the Borchardt pistol with separate
magazine
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