![]() By 1862 he had established the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company in Boston, Massachusetts, in order to produce the firearm for the Union army during the American Civil War.Īs the firearm’s inventor, Spencer witnessed his weapon become the standard arm for the Union cavalry in the latter stages of the Civil War. In 1860 he patented his most famous invention, the breech-loading repeating rifle, which allowed ammunition to be loaded into a chamber at the rear of the gun barrel rather than at the muzzle. In the mid-1850s, Spencer acquired his first patent for an automatic silk-winding machine, used by the Willimantic Linen Company of Windham. Portrait of Christopher Miner Spencer from the book Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1901.
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