Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German inventor
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Place of Birth: Sömmerda, Thuringia, Germany
About Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
- Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) 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 Perscussions-Gewehr M 1841 – a name deliberately chosen to mislead about the rifle's mechanism – later renamed Zündnadelgewehr M 1841 in 1855.
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