{"id":21403,"date":"2022-11-25T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/firepower-back-to-the-1500s-pre-collier-repeaters\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:00:34","slug":"firepower-back-to-the-1500s-pre-collier-repeaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/firepower-back-to-the-1500s-pre-collier-repeaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Firepower Back to the 1500s: Pre-Collier Repeaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lelAI_AwO-c?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cClockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler&#8221; is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/clockwork-basilisk?ref=amkotn<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/clockwork-basilisk?ref=amkotn<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Samuel Colt wasn&#8217;t the first person to invent a revolver, and Artemas Wheeler wasn&#8217;t either. Today Professor Ben Nicholson joins me to discuss the history of repeating firearms before Wheeler and Collier &#8211; a history that goes clear back to the 1500s. From Roman candle type guns like the Chambers to superposed chamber designs like the Jennings to truly bizarre designs like the Dolep &#038; Gorgo funnel pistol, we will cover it all!<\/p>\n<p>Indian revolving matchlock mentioned in the video:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UNp7UkFJaVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/UNp7UkFJaVQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cClockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler&#8221; is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter:https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/clockwork-basilisk?ref=amkotnSamuel Colt wasn&#8217;t the first person to invent a revolver, and Artemas Wheeler wasn&#8217;t either. Today Professor Ben Nicholson joins me to discuss the history of repeating firearms before Wheeler and Collier &#8211; a history that goes&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/firepower-back-to-the-1500s-pre-collier-repeaters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firepower Back to the 1500s: Pre-Collier Repeaters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}