Alexander John Forsyth
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish clergyman and inventor (1769-1843)
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Alexander John Forsyth was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister, who first successfully used fulminating chemicals to prime gunpowder in fire-arms thereby creating what became known as percussion ignition.
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Lived 1769 to 1843 · aged 73
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