An accurate repeating revolver, which fires sixteen shots without reloading, has been recently invented by W. J. Turnbull, of New Orleans. It has but three working parts, is light in weight, cannot possible get out of order, and should any of the cartridges fail to fire, all that is necessary is to press the trigger again to bring another cartridge into position and fire it. The handle of the pistol is the magazine and contains a chain of sixteen cartridges. This chain is moved with each pressure of the trigger, the same pressure firing one cartridge and pushing the next into position. The pistol is so constructed that a trigger is always ready to be pressed and therefore, the weapon can be fired as rapidly as the operator can press the trigger. There are four triggers, all of one piece of metal, and revolving so that while one of the triggers is ready for the pressure of the finger another is moving the hammer into position, and a third is ready to fall into place within the trigger guard.
Farrow, Edward S. American Small Arms; a Veritable Encyclopedia of Knowledge for Sportsmen and Military Men. New York: Bradford, 1904. Print.
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