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Joshua Shaw

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development of percussion caps

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    In small arm: Percussion ignition

    …caps (attributed to the Philadelphian Joshua Shaw in 1815) were becoming the accepted system for igniting firearm powder charges. A percussion cap was a truncated cone of metal (preferably copper) that contained a small amount of fulminate of mercury inside its crown, protected by foil and shellac. This cap was…

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