Christopher Miner was born in Manchester, Connecticut back in 1833. This one is going to be short compared to my usual history lessons. So, let’s get on to it. He worked for Samuel Colt at his factory where he learned all about the arms-making trade. He invented something around 1859 which of course will keep him in the history books.On august 18, `863 he walked into the White House, right pass the sentries and into Abraham Lincoln’s office. The next day he returned when Christopher, President Lincoln and Edwin Stanton walked outside near the Washington Monument where they engaged in target shooting. After that meeting the U.S. ordered 13,171 of his inventions.Christopher Miner Spencer invented the Spencer repeating rifle, one of the earliest models of the lever-action rifle. He also in...
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