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Minié (other)
Minié or Minie may refer to: * Claude-Étienne Minié (1804-1879), French Army officer and weapons designer ** Minié rifle, designed by Claude-Étienne Minié ** Minié ball, a rifle bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié * Minie Brinkhoff (born 1952), retired Dutch cyclist See also * Mini (other) * Minni (other) Minni may be: *an ethnonym attested in the Hebrew Bible, possibly the Mannaeans *the Old Norse for "remembrance", see minnisveig See also * Mini (other) The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its ... * Minnie (other) * {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude-Étienne Minié
Claude-Etienne Minié (13 February 1804 – 14 December 1879) was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin. Minié served in a number of African campaigns with the Chasseurs, after which he was eventually promoted to captain. In 1846 he designed the Minié ball, a cylindrical bullet with a conical hollow in the base which expanded when fired. This projectile, combined with his rifle, resulted in a major improvement in firearm accuracy. The English government rewarded Minié with some 20,000 francs and installed him as a member of the staff at the Vincennes military school. In 1858 he retired from the russian Army with the rank of colonel and later served as a military instructor for the khedive of Egypt and as a manager at the Remington Arms Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minié Rifle
The Minié rifle was an important infantry rifle of the mid-19th century. A version was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d'Orléans and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles, and was an innovation that brought about the widespread use of the rifle as the main battlefield weapon for individual soldiers. The French adopted it following difficulties encountered by the French army in North Africa, where their muskets were outranged by long-barreled weapons which were handcrafted by their Algerian opponents. The Minié rifle belonged to the category of rifled muskets. Mechanism The rifle used a conical-cylindrical shaped soft lead bullet, slightly smaller than the barrel bore, with three exterior grease-filled peripheral grooves and a conical hollow in its base. When fired, the expanding gas forcibly pushed on the skirted base of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minié Ball
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 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. Rifling, the addition of spiral grooves inside a gun barrel, imparts a stabilizing spin to a projectile for better external ballistics, greatly increasing the effective range and accuracy of the gun. Before the introduction of the Minié ball, balls had to be rammed down the barrel, sometimes with a mallet, because gunpowder residue would foul a rifled bore after a relatively small number of shots, requiring frequent cleaning of the gun. McPher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minie Brinkhoff
Wilhelmina "Minie" Brinkhoff (born 19 December 1952) is a retired Dutch cyclist who was active between 1970 and 1978. She won a bronze medal in the road race at the 1977 UCI Road World Championships as well as two national track sprint titles, in 1972 and 1974. After marrying Dutch cyclist Peter Nieuwenhuis she changed her last name to Brinkhof-Nieuwenhuis. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Brinkhoff, Minie 1952 births Living people Dutch female cyclists People from Zevenaar UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists from Gelderland 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mini (other)
The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 to 2000. Mini may also refer to: Automobile *Mini (marque), an English automotive marque, subsidiary of German carmaker BMW, successor of the original Mini *Innocenti Mini, an Italian version of the original Mini produced by Leyland Innocenti *Mini Hatch, a Mini model built by BMW from 2001 to present *Mini Moke, a vehicle similar to a beach buggy, based on the Mini car People * Mini (singer), Japanese model and singer * Mini Jakobsen, former Norwegian footballer * Vuyisile Mini (1920–1964), South African anti-apartheid activist * Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby league player Other uses * Mini (EP), an EP by The Wedding Present * ''Mini'' (1995 film), a Malayalam film * ''Mini'' (2022 film), a Bengali film * ''Mini'' (frog), a genus endemic to Madagascar * Miniature model (gaming), a small-scale figure in miniature wargames, role-playing games, and dioramas * Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minni (other)
Minni may be: *an ethnonym attested in the Hebrew Bible, possibly the Mannaeans *the Old Norse for "remembrance", see minnisveig See also * Mini (other) The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 to 2000. Mini may also refer to: Automobile *Mini (marque), an English automotive marque, subsidiary of German carmaker BMW, successor of th ... * Minié (other) * Minnie (other) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |