Early long arms, from the Renaissance up to the mid-1800s, were generally smoothbore firearms that fired one or more ball shot, called muskets.

Early revolvers were caplocks and loaded like muskets: the user poured powder into a chamber, rammed down a bullet, then placed percussion caps between the hammer and cylinder.

Early in the 20th century, Columbus also was home to a number of pioneering car manufacturers, including Reeves, which produced the unusual four-axle Octoauto and the twin rear axle Sextoauto, both around 1911.

Early Indian chintzes, that is a glazed calico with large floral pattern, were primarily produced by painting techniques.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Early salt brine wells that produced byproduct oil included the Thorla-McKee Well of Ohio in 1814, a well near Burkesville, Kentucky, in 1828, and wells at Burning Springs, West Virginia, by 1836.

Early rounds had a 15. 3 grams ( 236 grains ) long round nosed bullet, and was loaded so that it produced a muzzle velocity of about 580 m / s ( roughly 1900 ft / s ), while later rounds had a 12. 8 grams ( 198 grains ) spitzer bullet and gave a muzzle velocity of 823 m / s ( 2740 ft / s ).

Early approaches to mutagenesis rely on methods which are entirely random in the mutations produced.

Early analog synthesizers were usually monophonic ( capable of playing only one note at a time ), and controlled via a voltage produced by their keyboards.

Early hunter-gatherer tribes made stone weapons from around 10, 000 years ago ; as the age of metallurgy dawned, newer technologies were used and more efficient weapons produced.

" The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.

An illustrated catalogue of these stones was produced by J. Romilly Allen as part of The Early Church Monuments of Scotland, with lists of their symbols and patterns.

Early stamp images were almost always produced from engravings — a design etched into a steel die, which was then hardened and whose impression was transferred to a printing plate.

As well as Bishop's Finger, bottled varieties of Master Brew, Spitfire, Whitstable Bay, Late Red, Early Bird, Original Porter, and 1698 strong ale are also produced and exported.

Early works included recordings produced by audio pioneer Joe Meek.

Early investigators had been only able to produce impure tantalum, and the first relatively pure ductile metal was produced by Werner von Bolton in 1903.

Early compilers for ALGOL, Fortran, Cobol and some Forth systems often produced subroutine-threaded code.

B7 Productions also produced series of 30-minute prequel audio episodes called Blake's 7: The Early Years, which explored the earlier histories of the central characters.

Early versions of dictionaries produced in Burns ' wake in the 19th century had titles such as " A Dictionary of the Scotch Dialect of the Lowlands " and modern place names now written as " Scots " e. g., Scotstarvit and Scotscalder existed in previous incarnations as " Scotch ".

Early on, trainers began to recognize which breeds produced dogs most appropriate for guide work ; today, Golden Retrievers, Labradors, and German Shepherds are most likely to be chosen by guide dog facilities, although other breeds, such as Yorkshire Terriers, Standard Poodles, Collies, Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, Papillons, Vizslas, Dobermans, Rottweilers, Boxers, and Airedale Terriers, may also be selected.

Early in their existence, NION produced two documents — the " Pledge of Resistance " and the " Statement of Conscience "— that NION members believe provide focus and expression to the U. S. anti-war movement.

Stearns ' published works can be accessed at Early American Imprints, a microform and digital collection produced by the American Antiquarian Society.

Early settlers practiced subsistence farming and produced indigo, cotton, naval stores and timber, which were shipped downriver to the port at Georgetown and exported.

For over a thousand years, through the Byzantine, Medieval and Early Renaissance periods the Madonna was the most often produced pictorial artwork.

Early examples of punk rock in Japan include SS, The Star Club, The Stalin, Inu, Gaseneta, Bomb Factory, Lizard ( who were produced by the Stranglers ) and Friction ( whose guitarist Reck had previously played with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks before returning to Tokyo ) and The Blue Hearts.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early tetrapods were large amphibious piscivores.

Early public-key systems are secure assuming that it is difficult to factor a large integer composed of two or more large prime factors.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early hominids likely possessed fur similar to other large apes, but about 2. 5 million years ago they developed a greater distribution of sweat glands that enabled them to perspire over most of the body.

Early humans became the only one of the 193 primate species to have fleas, which can be attributed to the close living arrangements of large groups of individuals.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

** Early IETF Proceedings ( note: large pdf files, one for each volume )

Early hunter-gatherers depended on the organized hunting of large animals such as bison and deer.

Early Mehrgarh residents lived in mud brick houses, stored their grain in granaries, fashioned tools with local copper ore, and lined their large basket containers with bitumen.

Early minivans models may be smaller than modern models, but still fit into the child subsegment ; the first-generation Renault Espace introduced in 1984 would be classified nowadays as a compact MPV, but later generations grew in size and the Espace is now considered a large MPV.

The RCA Service Corporation provided large numbers of staff for the Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line.

Early European visitors to Korea remarked that the land resembled " a sea in a heavy gale " because of the large number of successive mountain ranges that crisscross the peninsula.

Early signs of a peace dividend were visible throughout the economy — Sri Lanka has been able to reduce defense expenditures and begin to focus on getting its large, public sector debt under control.

Historically, Samaritans were a large community — up to more than a million in late Roman times, but were then gradually reduced to several tens of thousands a few centuries ago — their unprecedented demographic shrinkage has been a result of various historical events, including, most notably, the bloody suppression of the Third Samaritan Revolt ( 529 CE ) against the Byzantine Christian rulers, and mass conversion to Islam in the Early Muslim period of Palestine.

Early switchboards in large cities usually were mounted floor to ceiling in order to allow the operators to reach all the lines in the exchange.

Early drives used very large spools, which necessarily had high inertia and did not start and stop moving easily.

The isotopic composition of fossil soils of end Triassic and Early Jurassic has been tied to a large negative carbon isotope excursion ( Whiteside et al.

Early emperors however embraced the Legalist ideal as a way of exerting control over their large and growing territory and population.

Early file servers housed multiple CD-ROM drives, which were used to host large database applications.