Luftbøsse

International names:

Air-gun; windbüchse; Fusil á vent; sclopetum pneumaticum

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Air gun. Magazine for app 12 bullets. Barrel rifled; bore Dia10 L485. Fruitwood with ornamentation. Iron butt forms the air chamber; unscrews for charging by means of a pump. The magazine is a 160 mm long iron tube along the side of the barrel. At its end an iron slide can take a lead bullet from the magazine into the barrel, when the weapon is pointed upwards, allowing a bullet to fall into the slide. Signed, in the barrel: CONTRINERc1800 (g)

• Category: Air
• Hauch number: G103y
• Inventory number: 2410
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 1301

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §343
• Cabinet 1: 0

• Literature:
• Nollet, J. A.: 3,1042
• Sigaud de Lafond : 2,0505
• Martinus van Marum: 146

• Musschenbroek(1729) pl.XXIII fig.12

  Desaguliers(1744) pl. XXIV fig.14ff

  Gehler(1787-96) IV p.769

  Gehler(1825-45) X p.2118-46 fig.205

  Frick(1856) p.139-40