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Which country invented the musket?
The Chinese are credited with the invention of the musket. The musket was a later form of a weapon known as the hand cannon.
When was the musket invented?
in the 1500's
What are the parts of a musket?
The lock, the stock, and the barrel. The lock is the mechanism with hammer, trigger, pan, and other parts to fire the musket. The stock is the wooden furniture which allows the operator to hold and aim the musket. The barrel is the tube through which the projectile is fired, exactly like a modern weapon, except that musket barrels were smooth bored like a shotgun instead of rifled.
What was the importance of advancments in weapon technology?
The rifled musket with the minie ball and percussion cap, the rifled cannon; breech loading, cartridge firing rifles and carbines like the Sharps, Spencer, and Henry; armored, steam powered gunboats; all made the battlefield more deadly.
Why was the mini balls important to the civil war?
Because it made the rifled musket shot to be lethal within a range of 600 meters and useful for more than 1 kilometer.
