Re: Tube/Valve Amp Noise

"keithr" <keithr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Patrick Turner" <info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Was not the repeating rifle a boon the North in the American war of
>> Independance?
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> not really it hadn't been invented then - muskets were all the rage.
Come 
> in useful for killing indians though and all but wiping out the bison

**Correct. The Springfield Rifle was invented by the North, during the
Civil 
War. It was arguably the first really mass produced item, built of 
sophisticated mechanical equipment. So im****tant was this item and it's 
manufacturing system, that the factory was booby trapped, so complete 
destruction would occur, if it had any chance of falling into the hands of

the South. The Springfield Rifle was credited as being, in no small part, 
for the fact that the North prevailed during that, very dark, time in US 
history. It has also left it's mark on the US psyche. Many Americans seem
to 
think that gun owning is both sane and a right for individuals, despite
the 
very clear wording in the 2nd Amendment.

Trevor Wilson