Early revolvers were loaded a bit like muskets-powder was poured into each chamber of the cylinder, and a bullet was then squeezed in.

Category: Early revolvers

Category: Early revolvers

Category: Early revolvers

Early in 1941 they were assigned to a script titled Hot Nocturne.

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

But his first few days with Troop H were full of surprises, beginning with First Sergeant Robert Early.

Early atomic time scales consisted of quartz clocks with frequencies calibrated by a single atomic clock ; the atomic clocks were not operated continuously.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere in the 13th – 15th century were made of iron.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

Early forms of industry developed at this time ; however, unlike in other cities, no guilds were formed in Aarau.

For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.

Early ammeters were laboratory instruments which relied on the Earth's magnetic field for operation.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Early, African-influenced banjos were built around a gourd body and a wooden stick neck.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

Early buses, known as trolleybus, were powered by electricity supplied from overhead lines.

Early buses were merely a bus body fitted to a truck chassis.

Early horse-drawn buses were a combination of a hackney carriage and a stagecoach.

Early battles were probably fought between rival hunting bands as disorganized mobs.

Early implementations were for the DEC PDP-7 and PDP-11 minicomputers using early Unix, and Honeywell 36-bit mainframes running the operating system GCOS.

Early traces of bricks were found in a ruin site in Xi ' an in 2009 dated back about 3800 years ago.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

Early computer installations were designed only to support a single writing system, typically for left-to-right scripts based on the Latin alphabet only.

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 VCRs used an incandescent bulb as the light source, which regularly failed and caused the VCR to erroneously think that a cassette is loaded when empty, or would detect the blown bulb and stop functioning completely.

Early powder burning fuzes had to be loaded fuze down to be ignited by firing or a portfire put down the barrel to light the fuze.

Early firearms were mostly muzzle loading ( loaded from the mouth rather than the breech ), which tends to be a slow and complicated procedure, resulting in a low rate of fire.

Early models were subject to severe environmental limitations, especially when loaded into Royal Navy Scimitars on exposed aircraft carrier decks in Northern waters.

Early such missiles were launched from fixed sites and had to be loaded onto trucks for transport, making them more vulnerable to attack since once they were spotted by the enemy they couldn't easily be relocated, and if they were it often took hours or even days to prepare them for launch once they reached their new site.

Early ammunition was loaded with a 10. 1 gram ( 156 grain ) long round-nosed bullet ( B-projectile ) with a muzzle velocity of 700 m / s ( 2300 ft / s ), while later rounds ( from 1941 onwards ) used a 9. 1 gram ( 140 grain ) spitzer bullet ( D-projectile ) with a muzzle velocity of 800 m / s ( 2625 ft / s ).

Early Marlin. 30-30 microgroove barrels had a twist rate of 1 turn in 10 inches optimized for factory ammunition with jacketed bullets ; later Marlin. 30-30 microgroove barrels show a twist rate of 1 turn in 10. 5 inches which improves accuracy with cartridges loaded to lower velocity than standard.

Early cartridges were loaded with black powder, and many later converted to cordite or other smokeless powders, often yielding two similar cartridges with different loadings, such as the. 450 Black Powder Express and the. 450 Nitro Express.

But now with real anger at last, something proud and indignant, Early Spring stood like a she wolf before her den and cried, `` I will not shriek at you!!

Early archaeoastronomy surveyed Megalithic constructs in the British Isles, at sites like Auglish in County Londonderry, in an attempt to find statistical patterns

Early personal computers like the Apple II and the IBM PC integrated an internal backplane for expansion cards.

Early light cavalry ( like the auxiliaries of the Roman army ) were typically used to scout and skirmish, to cut down retreating infantry, and for defeating enemy missile troops.

( Early modern philosophers like Locke used the corresponding English terms ' nominal essence ' and ' real essence ').

Early dragoons were not organized in squadrons or troops as were cavalry, but in companies like the infantry: their officers and non-commissioned officers bore infantry ranks.

Early groups like Napalm Death are credited with laying the groundwork for the style.

Early inhabitants, around 3000 BC were likely to have been connected through culture and trade to neighboring civilizations like Jiroft and Tappeh Sialk and more distantly to the Indus Valley Civilization.

Early house producers like Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Early Italian instruments, on the other hand, were so light in construction that they were treated rather like a violin: kept for storage in a protective outer case, and played after taking it out of its case and placing it on a table.

Early designs from both countries were short-range missiles, like the V-2, but improvements quickly followed.

Early in his career he worked as an illustrator for magazines like the Boy's Own Paper and Judy, drew comic strips, including the Sherlock Holmes parody " Chubb-Lock Homes " for Comic Cuts, and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym " W. Bird ".

* Provision of benefits to members: Early trade unions, like Friendly Societies, often provided a range of benefits to insure members against unemployment, ill health, old age and funeral expenses.

Early on, as a youngster it was difficult, but I ’ m not ashamed to talk about it because many people have misconceptions about hearing loss ; like who has hearing loss and what it ’ s like not to hear, so I do talk about it.

Early scholars like H. C. P.

Early prototypes were designed to use Simca parts and a grille like the Simca 1307.

" 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.

Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".

Early steel ploughs, like those for thousands of years prior, were walking ploughs, directed by the ploughman holding onto handles on either side of the plough.

Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels (" wheelie " or " manual "), spinning only on the back wheels ( a " pivot "), high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a " hippie jump ", long jumping from one board to another, ( often over small barrels or fearless teenagers ), or slalom.

To achieve a tone and quality that was true to the story as well as reflected the period in which it is set, Spielberg once again collaborated with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, saying, " Early on, we both knew that we did not want this to look like a Technicolor extravaganza about World War II, but more like color newsreel footage from the 1940s, which is very desaturated and low-tech.