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Jacob Smith Jarmann
Norwegian firearms designer and inventor
Jacob Smith Jarmann | |
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| Born | Jacob Smith Jarmann (1816-05-30)30 May 1816 Nord-Fron in Oppland, Norway |
| Died | 29 March 1894(1894-03-29) (aged 77) Kristiania, Norway |
| Occupation(s) | firearms designer and inventor |
Jacob Smith Jarmann (30 May 1816 – 29 March 1894) was a Norwegian firearms designer and inventor of the Jarmann rifle.[1]
Biography
Jarmann was born in the parish of Nord-Fron in Oppland, Norway.
He was raised at the farm Øien in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdalen. He developed an interest in firearms at an early age, and he designed his first rifle—a breech loading rifle firing cardboard cartridges—in 1838, but this was turned down by the armed forces at the time.
The logic was that a rifle capable of firing 13 shots a minute would be impossible to supply with enough ammunition.[2]
In the 1870s he stepped down from the daily running of his workshop to