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3 The English System of Manufacture.(Beretta U.S.A. Corp.)
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The first change in the technology of manufacturing firearms occurred some 300 years after Beretta began making guns. It came in the form of the English System of Manufacture, which was introduced at Beretta as a result of the Napoleonic conquest of the Venetian Republic and the establishment of a state-run arms factory at Brescia, the capital of the province around Gardone (c. 1800).
The machine tool industry was born in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
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