Unblinking Eye

Traditional darkroom photography and historical photographic processes

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Bergmann and Lignose

This drawing is from Witold Chylewski’s first Austrian patent, number 68151, submitted 6 October 1913.  This is the essential mechanism that was used in the Bergmann and Lignose pistols.  Chylewski’s second patent (69618) was for a more complex mechanism--see next page.