Editing Automatic revolver (section)

== History ==
An automatic revolver was communicated to Moses Poole, a patent agent, in 1841. The exact identity of the inventor of this weapon is unknown but in all likelihood it was a Frenchman by the name of Philippe Mathieu, who had patented, amongst several different types of revolver, an almost identical design two years previously.<ref>{{cite book|author1=A.W.F. Taylerson|author2=R.A.N. Andrews|author3=J. Frith|title=The Revolver 1818–1865|year=1968|publisher=Herbert Jenkins Ltd.|page=295}}</ref> Another automatic revolver was communicated to British patent agent William Edward Newton by the Americans Mershon and Hollingsworth in 1854.<ref>{{cite book|title=American Farmers' Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CtMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA640|year=1855|page=640}}</ref> Both of these weapons used clockwork as the power for achieving automatic operation. In 1863 a gas piston-operated revolver was designed by a Spanish gunsmith named Orbea.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TcSIDwAAQBAJ&q=Orbea+Revolver+1863&pg=PT286 | title=The Hand Gun Story: A Complete Illustrated History| isbn=9781783469741| last1=Walter| first1=John| date=2008-06-30}}</ref> The [[Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver]] was designed in 1895 and became the first commercial and best-known semi-automatic revolver.