Name | Street | Town | State | From | To |
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Lindner, Edward |   | New York City | New York | 1854 | 1863 |
Patent | Date | Remarks |
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11,197 | June 27th, 1854 | Improved Magazine, Repeating, and Needle Gun Patent drawing Specification Specification 2nd page Specification 3rd page Specification 4th page |
2297 British patent | April 24, 1855 | Revolving-breech Fire-Arms |
14,819 | May 6, 1856 | Improvement in Breech-Loading Guns see patent |
1415 British patent same as 14,819 | December 12, 1856 | Improvements in Breech-Loading Guns |
17,287 | May 12, 1857 | Improved Cartridges see patent |
17,382 | May 26th, 1857 | Improvement in Fire-Arms Patent drawing Specification Specification 2nd page Specification 3rd page Specification 4th page |
1999 British patent same as 17,382 |   | Improvement in Fire-Arms |
23,378 | March 29, 1859 | Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms Patent drawing Specification Specification 2nd page |
32,949 | July 30, 1861 | Improved Mode of Preparing Projectiles for Ordnance see patent |
37,173 | December 16, 1862 | Improvement in Air-Guns see patent |
3275 British patent | 1863 | Sealed Interrupted-Thread Breech for Cannon | 358 British patent | 1865 | Slinding bold, interrupted thread, needle fire | 2512 British patent | 1865 | Sliding Interrupted-Thread Breechblock for Centerfire or Needlefire Rifle | 1143 British patent | 1867 | Sliding bolt, interrupted thread, breech block conversion |
Contract | for |
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November 4, 1862 Colonel William Maynadier | All the carbines made after his plan which he can deliver up to the first of December next at $20 each |
Product |
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Edward Lindner was german origine. When the Civil War ended he moved back to Germany where he
died February 17, 1870. Invented the first system to utilize the emission of gas when firing a gun to action the lock. There was a relationship to Amoskeg Manufacturing Co. which made 400 Carbines and 40,000 rounds of Lindner cartridges (.574 caliber Minie ball) at $25 per gun. In fact they made many of the guns for which Lindner contracted. On the November 4, 1862 contract 5001 carbines were delivered and issued to the 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry. .48 caliber percussion, 15 shoot (6 in a cylinder and 9 in the tube) rifle. Only one is known .58 caliber percussion, bolt action of which 892 were purchased during the Civil War Mississippi rifle conversation, Lindner conversion altered by Allen and Moore, Boston for the state of Massachusett in 1861 - about 100 made. left side right side breechblock right side Lindner Carbine with breechblock, Model 1861 marked EDWARD LINDNER'S/PATENT/MARCH 29, 1859 in three lines. The models produced in 1861 and 1863 are generally considered First Model or Type I carbines. These were the only type to participate in recorded combat. Several thousands of the Bavarian M 58 rifle were altered after the Podewils-Lindner system in 1867 and therfore called Model M58/67. Podewils = German noble family |