Wheel-Lock from a Hunting Rifle
Cleveland Museum of Art

Wheel-Lock from a Hunting Rifle

c. 1660–1720

steel, inlaid with gold design of Habsburg eagle, pierced and chiseled
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Invented in the early 1500s, the wheel-lock was a new type of ignition system, the first to be self igniting.

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