Sentence examples for firearms development from inspiring English sources

However, Colt's zealous protection of his patents greatly impeded firearms development as a whole in the United States.

Although successful at this for the most part, his preoccupation with marketing strategies and patent protection caused him to miss a great opportunity in firearms development when he dismissed an idea from one of his gunsmiths, Rollin White.

Concurrently with the disuse of armour and the development of firearms, the pike, or thrusting element, gradually displaced the cleaving element in such weapons.

The development of firearms led to the shedding of armour, making it possible for some further modifications in methods and training under followers of the school of Pignatelli and Grisone, such as William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle.

As M. Levine so aptly remarked: "Before the development of firearms, the horse was crucial to warfare and before the invention of the steam engine, it was the fastest and most reliable form of land transport" [5].

The development of firearms rendered bows obsolete in warfare.

But the advent of the telegraph (in the early 1830s), the spread of the railroad and the development of better firearms meant that groups of hundreds of pigeon shooters (and trappers) could hear about the location of an enormous colony, travel there easily and kill millions of birds quickly.

As Japan turned away from firearms, Europe went ahead with their development.

"The gains are all reversible, because the main conditions on the land, such as poverty, insecurity, the distribution of firearms and a lack of institutional development, remain largely unchanged," he told Reuters.

Arranged loosely into nine themes, the exhibition opens with a display on the development of the revolving firearm by Colt in the early 1830s.

Development in the use of firearms was so rapid during the 15th and 16th centuries as to require a radical change in military architecture.