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Article: 2 Gun-making in Gardone--the Craft System.
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- Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management
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- May 1, 2005
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For hundreds of years after its inception, gun-making in Gardone, Italy, changed little. By contrasting the practices related below to those described subsequently in connection with the English and American systems, we can begin to understand the scope of the changes with which Gardone's gunsmiths had to cope.
The locking mechanisms forged in the shops of Gardone gunmakers in the 1780s were little changed from those of 300 years earlier. Figure 2.1 and Figure 2.2, taken from Diderot's Encyclopedia, illustrate the nature of the shops and kinds of tools and measuring instruments then in use. Although the shop depicted in the plates did assembly, shops that ...