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Wheellock: The First Self-Igniting Firearm
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Wheellock: The First Self-Igniting Firearm
The wheellock -- also written wheel-lock or wheel lock -- is a friction-wheel ignition mechanism that generates sparks to fire a gun. It was the first self-igniting firearm ever built. Before it existed, every firearm on earth required an external fl
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