Benjamin Tyler Henry

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Benjamin Tyler Henry (born March 22, 1821 in Claremont , New Hampshire , † June 8, 1898 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American designer and the inventor of the Henry rifle .

Benjamin Tyler Henry
Henry rifle lock
Henry cartridge, caliber .44

His developments

Henry already worked for the predecessors of the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, later as a foreman at the first Smith & Wesson partnership , 1852 to 1855. He was later commissioned by Oliver Winchester , the then main shareholder of the New Haven Arms Company , to produce the Volcanic- Upgrade weapons . He then developed a rimfire cartridge in caliber .44 Henry and a rifle with the Volcanic repeating system that fired this case cartridge. On October 16, 1860, he received a patent on his Henry rifle, which was able to exploit its advantages in the American Civil War from 1862 against the Springfield Model 1861.

Henry worked for the company renamed the Winchester Repeating Arms Company until 1873. Until 1980, the rimfire cartridges produced by Winchester still had an H stamped on the bottom for Henry .

The Henry Repeating Arms Company

Benjamin Tyler Henry never founded a company called the Henry Repeating Arms Company or anything like it, or had any legal predecessor to that company. The now well-known Henry Repeating Arms Company was founded in the mid-1990s by Louis Imperato, who only used the surname of Benjamin Tyler Henry to use this symbolic and well-known name to name the lever action rifles manufactured from 1996 Caliber .22 (whose model type H001, however, had previously been developed and manufactured as the EG712 series by the German manufacturer Erma , which was liquidated in 1997 ).

literature

  • Wiley Sword: The Historic Henry Rifle . Andrew Mowbray Publishers, PO Box 460, Lincoln, RI 2002, ISBN 1-931464-01-4 .

Web links

Commons : Henry rifle  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Patents and the History of Technology, The Henry Repeating Rifle Article June 12, 2005
  • Henry Repeating Arms Company , Henry History , official manufacturer website for the alleged (since it was founded by Louis Imperato, who only uses the name Henrys) company history

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Tyler Henry at Find A Grave
  2. ↑ American Rifleman p. 26th
personal data
SURNAME Henry, Benjamin Tyler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American armorer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Claremont , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1898
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut