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With five years’ experience as a homes writer, Charley now writes for Good Housekeeping, Country Living and House Beautiful but has also previously worked in print for an architecture magazine. The Minié ball or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle, for muzzle-loading rifled muskets. It was invented in 1847 and came to prominence in the Crimean War [1] and the American Civil War, where it was found to inflict significantly more serious wounds than earlier round musket balls. Both the American Springfield Model 1861 and the British Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled muskets, the most common weapons used during the American Civil War, used the Minié ball. [2] :55 Although the Minié ball was conical in shape, it was commonly referred to as a “ball,” due to the round shape of the ammunition that had been used for centuries. Made of soft lead, it was slightly smaller than the intended gun bore, making it easy to load in combat. Designed with two to four grooves and a cone-shaped cavity, it was made to expand under the pressure to increase muzzle velocity. When fired, the expanding gas deformed the bullet and engaged the barrel’s rifling, providing spin for better accuracy and longer range. A precursor to the Minié ball was created in the 1830s by French Army captains Montgomery and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. Their design was made to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles, an innovation that brought about the widespread use of the rifle rather than the smoothbore musket as a mass battlefield weapon. Delvigne had invented a ball that could expand upon ramming to fit the grooves of a rifle in 1826. [4] The cylindro-conoidal ball design had been proposed in 1832 by Captain John Norton, [5] but had not been adopted. [ citation needed]

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a b McPherson, James M. (1988) Battle Cry of Freedon: The Civil War Era Oxford University Press. p.474 ISBN 0-19-503863-0 Charley has an MA in Journalism & Media Studies and undertook an internship at a travel magazine in Iceland. She still writes occasional travel and lifestyle stories when the inspiration strikes now, with work published in Cosmopolitan, Stylist, ELLE and Women’s Health, among others. Captain James H. Burton, an armorer at the Harpers Ferry Armory, developed a major improvement on Minié's design when he added a deep conical cavity at the base of the ball, [ clarification needed] which more efficiently filled up with gas and expanded the bullet's skirt upon firing. A higher percentage of the explosive force went toward forward projectile motion and lesser percentage toward fitting into the rifling. Burton's modified Minie ball had decreased mass and increased speed, resulting in increased energy and better range, as well as a cheaper bullet, which was used in the Crimean War [ citation needed] and then the American Civil War. [3] Burton's version of the ball weighed 1.14 ounces. [2] :314–315 Use [ edit ]Every bullet vibrator on this list has been tested by our trusted Good Housekeeping Institute panel of more than 120 women, spanning all ages. They put each product to the test to make sure they met our high standards. The alloy may need to be balanced once a tyre has been fitted to the rim. Any reputable tyre bay can provide this service. Chisolm, Julian (1864). A manual of military surgery, for the use of surgeons in the Confederate States army; with explanatory plates of all useful operations. Columbia: Evans and Cogswell. p. 119. Every bullet was tried by at least five people for several weeks, with every setting, claim and innovative feature put through its paces.

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a b Manring, M. M.; Hawk, Alan; Calhoun, Jason H.; Andersen, Romney C. (14 February 2009). "Treatment of War Wounds: A Historical Review". Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 467 (8): 2168–2191. doi: 10.1007/s11999-009-0738-5. PMC 2706344. PMID 19219516. The design of Norton and Greener was taken a step further by two French army captains, Claude-Étienne Minié and Henri-Gustave Delvigne, who in 1849 created the conical, soft-lead bullet with four rings, and a rifle with a grooved barrel to go with it. Delvigne, who would go on to codesign several models of revolving pistols, had earlier created a conical bullet design, but Minié made the projectile smaller and longer, easier to load. At the time, French troops were facing Algerians whose long rifles outranged French muskets, and the invention of Minié offered a solution to that problem. (Minié is properly pronounced min-YAY, but Americans pronounced the name as “Minnie.”)Type of conical projectile for mid 19th century rifles Various types of Minié balls. The four on the right are provided with Tamisier ball grooves for aerodynamic stability. James H. Burton's 1855 Minié ball design (.58 caliber, 500 grains) from the Harpers Ferry Armory O'Connelll, Robert L. (1990). Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression. Oxford University Press US. p.191. ISBN 9780198022046 . Retrieved 2010-05-14. a b c d Keegan, John (2009). The American Civil War: a military history. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26343-8. OCLC 303042537.