Patents are customarily acknowledged on firearms by date, which is practically impossible to search effectually. and Germany are instantly accessible through the government websites and respectively, as are those of Britain and many other countries through Espacenet.īut there are still frustrations: U.S. Now, owing largely to the internet, things have changed. Twenty years ago, when I was trying to complete the Greenhill Dictionary of Guns and Gunmakers (published in 2001), obtaining details was often difficult, invariably time-consuming, and potentially very costly.
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These articles opened so many avenues of research that, thanks largely to the enthusiasm of Rob McDonnell of the Warner Group ( responsible for publishing Classic Arms & Militaria and The Armourer, the on-going 'Men Behind the Gun' series was created in the hope of rehabilitating inventors and patentees who have been lost to history (while others, all too often lacking the spark of genius, have become household names).
The Lee articles benefited greatly from the assistance of Brad Lee Morris, who was able to supply copious details of the life of his great-great-grandfather. The Snider article was followed by 'The Men Behind the Guns' (June/July issue), then by two dealing with James Paris Lee and those who had helped him, including family members. Its discovery suggested that there could be other ‘family archives’ still to be recovered for other inventors and patentees associated with the firearms industry. The material was sparse, but useful nonetheless. This offered information that was not previously available, largely owing to the unexpected discovery of the papers held in the New York Public Library which had been gifted in 1934 by Mrs Irving McKesson (Snider’s great-grandniece). In 2016, I wrote an article for the April/May edition of Classic Arms & Militaria investigating the more personal aspects of the life of Jacob Snider.
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