M-1841 Dreyse Nadelpistole, Holzstich, erschienen 1869 - Stock-Grafiken

Historical view of a M-1841 Dreyse needle-gun, mechanism and bullet cartridge. The Dreyse needle-gun was a 19th-century military breech-loading rifle, as well as the first breech-loading rifle to use a bolt action to open and close the chamber. It was used as the main infantry weapon of the Prussians in the Wars of German Unification. It was invented in 1836 by the German gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse (1787 - 1867). Wood engraving, published in 1869.