Home›Articles›Thirty Years After the Pistols, North Went Back to Fix a Rifle's LeakArticleThirty Years After the Pistols, North Went Back to Fix a Rifle's LeakArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnSimeon North, Engineers Well-attested SourcesSimeon North, Inventor Biography (Made How)Made HowBody text, second paragraph (1823 rifle contract and the 1843 North's Improvement breech redesign)Quote, Body text, second paragraph (1823 rifle contract and the 1843 North's Improvement breech redesign)North's design made the breech mechanism fit more closely to the barrel, thus reducing the loss of velocity.View the SourceAtlas Article Vocabularytier 1AtlasComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.