Louis-Etienne de Thouvenin
French officer and inventor
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development of rifles
- In small arm: Early rifling
In 1844 another French officer, Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin, introduced yet a better method for expanding bullets. His carabine à tige embodied a post or pillar (tige) at the breech against which the bullet was expanded.
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