A wheellock, wheel-lock, or wheel lock is a friction-wheel mechanism which creates a spark that causes a firearm to fire. It was the next major development in firearms technology after the …

Oct 19, 2022 · The device was called a wheellock, and it worked much like the modern cigarette lighter. The wheellock mechanism was wound against the tension of a strong spring.

May 16, 2025 · Recognizing these problems, inventors later developed wheellock and flintlock weapons to overcome the shortcomings of the matchlock method. Let’s take a closer look at …

Dec 11, 2024 · One of the more unique firearm mechanisms seen in history is the wheellock, which used a spinning, serrated wheel to create sparks from a piece of iron pyrite.

The wheellock mechanism, or just wheellock, was an earlier style of gun lock that preceded the flintlock, and succeeded the matchlock, making it the second gun lock to be used in an …

Sometime around 1500 ad, in the early firearm centers at Brescia, Bologna, Genoa, Milan, and Venice, and the south German centers of Augsburg and Nuremberg, a new firearm with a …

Wheel lock, device for igniting the powder in a firearm such as a musket. It was developed in about 1515. The wheel lock struck a spark to ignite powder on the pan of a musket. It did so …