The practice of hunting from the howdah basket on top of an Asian elephant was first made popular by the joint Anglo-Indian East India Company during the 1790s.

When was the Lancaster pistol invented?

Thorn developed the oval bore system while working at the Lancaster firm in 1870 and later designed the Lancaster pistol as a gun to implement his new system.

How does a pepperbox pistol work?

Each barrel holds a single shot, and the shooter can manually rotate the whole barrel assembly to sequentially index each barrel into alignment with the lock or hammer, similar to rotation of a revolver's cylinder.