Minié

Minié, CLAUDE ÉTIENNE, inventor of the Minié rifle, was born in Paris in 1814, enlisted in the army as a private soldier, and quitted it as colonel in 1858. He devoted his principal thought to the perfecting of firearms, and in 1849 invented the Minié rifle (see RIFLE). In 1858 the khedive of Egypt appointed him director of a small-arms factory and musketry school in Cairo. He died in 1879.