Hmmm...
If you can read the page I posted (post 18), it discusses Dreyse's employment with Pauly, and his familiarity with Pauly's developments. Later Dreyse was recycling the copper from some bad caps in the 1820s by scratching the priming compound with a needle. He then developed a cartridge similar to the Volcanic or perhaps Hunt's Rocket Ball. It was loaded from the muzzle and patented in 1828.
There was a flurry and frenzy of firearms development throughout the 19th century, a major expression of the Industrial Revolution. Ideas and Inventions influence and rebound off each other; nothing arises ex nihilo, many ideas occur simultaneously to different people. That's what makes the 19th Century so fascinating.
If you can read the page I posted (post 18), it discusses Dreyse's employment with Pauly, and his familiarity with Pauly's developments. Later Dreyse was recycling the copper from some bad caps in the 1820s by scratching the priming compound with a needle. He then developed a cartridge similar to the Volcanic or perhaps Hunt's Rocket Ball. It was loaded from the muzzle and patented in 1828.
There was a flurry and frenzy of firearms development throughout the 19th century, a major expression of the Industrial Revolution. Ideas and Inventions influence and rebound off each other; nothing arises ex nihilo, many ideas occur simultaneously to different people. That's what makes the 19th Century so fascinating.