Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (died 1867)

Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse

19th Century Fire-arms Inventor and Manufacturer

Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 as the Leichte Perkussions-Gewehr M 1841 – a name deliberately chosen…