{"id":6960,"date":"2019-09-02T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/nichols-childs-revolving-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:35:15","slug":"nichols-childs-revolving-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/nichols-childs-revolving-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichols &amp; Childs Revolving Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngX3t91MrIk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>RIA on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction<\/a><br \/>\nRIA on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rufus Nichols and Edward Childs had a partnership in Conway MA making revolving firearms in the late 1830s. Their patent was granted in 1838, for an indexing mechanism that linked the cylinder to the hammer. However, the guns also used a spring loaded cylinder with nested cones on the mouth of each chamber to prevent gas leakage. The cylinder had to be manually unlocked before it could be rotated, and then manually locked again before firing. Interestingly, some of their rifles (like this one) omitted the indexing mechanism entirely, leaving the shooter to line up the cylinder by hand. In total, the pair made 100-150 rifles in both .36 and .44 calibers, and about 2 dozen pistols. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIA on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction RIA on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/ Rufus Nichols and Edward Childs had a partnership in Conway MA making revolving firearms in the late 1830s. Their patent was granted in 1838, for an indexing mechanism that linked the cylinder to the hammer. However, the guns also used a spring loaded cylinder with nested cones&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/nichols-childs-revolving-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nichols &amp; Childs Revolving Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6961,"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-6960","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\/6960","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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13448,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/13448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}