1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: W. Greener
59. GREENER, W., Birmingham — Inventor and Manufacturer.
Pair of double guns in case, 10 gauge, 7ilbs. weight each, barrels made of laminated steel. Double rifle in case; barrels of laminated steel.
Patent harpoon gun, as used in the " Arctic Seas," with lines, gun harpoon, and model of the head of a whale-boat ready for use. Harpoon gun, etc., as used in the South Seas, or sperm-whale fishing.
Rocket gun and rocket lines for saving lives from shipwrecks, fixed upon a model of the exhibitor's life-boat. Is calculated to effect communication up to 600 yards with accuracy, and obviate the present defect of the rocket being deflected from the intended aim.
Registered stanchion gun for wild-fowl shooting. Fired by percussion tubes.
Military musket, of a lighter construction, and greater durability and range than those in use. Double military rifle on a new construction.
Pair of newly-finished gun-barrels in the piston proof frame, prepared for proving. In this process the cylinders of the barrels are closed by steel plungers, and the charge is allowed no vent for escape but through the orifice of the nipples. Thus the capacity of the barrels to resist the confined force of any given quantity of gunpowder is ascertained.
Specimens of laminated steel in various shapes, showing its tenacity, tenuity, and density.
Gun harpoons, lances, rockets, etc., as ornaments.