Samuel Pauly Invents the Cartridge in 1812

(Video reuploaded to removed an allegedly copyrighted still image) This Pauly shotgun (lot #1346) sold at Morphy’s April 2019 auction for $5,535. Samuel Johannes Pauli was born outside Bern, Switzerland in 1766, and became an engineer of wide interests. Among them were bridge design, passenger-carrying balloons (he would work seriously on a 15-20 passenger balloon service between London and Paris later in life), and firearms. Only a few years after Forsyth’s invention of fulminate priming, Pauly would bec