“At this time William E., a brother of Mr. Courtland C. Palmer, was in Paris with the Jennings gun. All parties were so interested with the success of the gun that Mr. Dixon, the agent, had two boxes of ammunition made up and sent by the next steamer to W. E. Palmer in Paris. In two weeks from the time of the trial in New York, the invention was known in Paris and applied to the French guns with the same success as was met with in the Jennings rifle. The same principle is used today in all breech loading guns. I came direct from New York to Hartford, and informed the president of the Sharps Rifle Mfg. Co. of my new discovery and tried to induce the company to introduce the lubricating material in the Sharps Rifle, as this rifle then used the naked ball and was subject to the same very serious trouble as the Jennings. Mr. Sharps was called on and the use of the lubricating explained, but he ignored the whole matter, calling it a ‘humbug.’ I returned to Vermont somewhat disgusted. In less than one week the president of the Sharps Rifle Mfg. Co. wrote to Windsor to stop all work until Mr. Sharps and himself arrived, stating that Mr. Sharps had tried the lubricating material and found that it was indispensable, and that no more guns must go out before the change was made for lubrication. The Jennings rifles, of which a few had been made for samples, were in a crude state. Robbins & Lawrence made new models and manufactured the 5,000 for Mr. Courtland C. Palmer. After this Mr. Tyler Henry, an old and first-class workman of Robbins & Lawrence, made in New Haven great improvements on the Jennings rifle. After this it went into the hands of the Winchester Arms Company of New Haven. They made great improvements on the gun and called it the Winchester Repeating Rifle. It is the outcrop of the old Jennings rifle.”[221] [221] From the Hartford _Evening Post_, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1890. A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TOOL BUILDING Smiles: Industrial Biography. Boston, 1864. Smiles: Men of Invention and Industry. N. Y., 1885. Smiles: Boulton and Watt. London, 1904. Smiles: The Stephensons. London, 1904. Smiles: Smeaton and Rennie. London, 1904. Beck: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Maschinenbaues. Berlin, 1900. Matschoss: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie. Berlin, Bände I-V, 1909-1913. Sargant: “Sir Samuel Bentham,” in “Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer.” London, 1869. Bentham, Mary S.: Memoirs of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, in Papers and Practical Illustrations of Public Works. London, 1856. Beamish: Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel. London, 1862. Nasmyth: Autobiography of James Nasmyth, Edited by Smiles. London, 1883. Holtzapffel: Turning and Mechanical Manipulation. London, 1847. Buchanan: Millwork and other Machinery. London, 1841. Perrigo: Modern American Lathe Practice. N. Y., 1907.