The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester / from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir

by Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester

No. LXXX.

How to make a pistol barrel no thicker than a shilling, and yet able to endure a musket proof of powder and bullet.

NOTE.

It requires no great share of ingenuity to accomplish this object, as an examination of modern fire-arms will fully testify; many pocket pistols that are manufactured at the present period, being at least as thin as those described by the noble author.