The breech-loading principle was also adopted in them, and special provision to effect this satisfactorily was invented by him. |
This coincided with rapid improvement in firearms, with breech-loading rifles replacing the musket. |
Recoil systems and cartridge ammunition increased rates of fire of breech-loading weapons. |
Better guns, along with breech-loading, made possible both longer ranges and higher rates of fire. |
The other early sea-cannon, which we have mentioned, were also breech-loading. |
For the next 50 years breech-loading muskets and rifles were made in England as sporting guns. |