Claude-Étienne Minié
✓ Source-basedstableFrench Army officer (1804-1879)
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Claude-Etienne Minié was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball and Minié rifle in 1849. He succeeded the pioneering work of Henri-Gustave Delvigne and Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin.
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FranceCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1804 to 1879 · aged 75
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