The factory was expanded again after a few years. In 1894 the company opened a new facility on Park Avenue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Harrington (Gilbert Harrington's son) and Mary A. After the deaths of Harrington and Richardson in 1897, Brooks became the manager and the company was held by heirs Edwin C. Harrington was president, Richardson was treasurer, and George F. Their original capital investment was $75,000. In 1888 the firm was incorporated as The Harrington & Richardson Arms Company. In 1875 Harrington and another former Wesson employee, William Augustus Richardson, formed the new Harrington & Richardson Company.

He started a brief partnership in 1871 with his nephew Gilbert Henderson Harrington, as Wesson & Harrington, until Harrington bought him out in 1874. Wesson produced two trigger rifles and spur trigger pistols and pocket rifles/shotguns popular for short length holster models such as the discontinued topper compact pocket shotguns. Wesson who co-founded Smith & Wesson, started a firearms manufacturing firm in 1859, sharing an early patent with Nathan Harrington. The US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.The original H&R firm was in business for over a century from 1871 to 1986. Citation of manufacturer's or trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use thereof. The views and conclusions contained in this document/presentation are those of the author and should not be interpreted as presenting the official policies or position, either expressed or implied, of the US Army Research Laboratory or the US Government unless so designated by other authorized documents. The research reported in this document/presentation was performed in connection with contract DAAD17-02-C-0003 with the US Army Research Laboratory. The program was monitored by the US Army Research Laboratory, MD. The funding provided by the US Army under contract DAAD17-02-C-0003 is deeply appreciated. Prarthana Bose of MPI for the help with the manuscript preparations. Mark Graham of Materials Processing, Inc. The authors would like to acknowledge the help provided by Mr. The paper will describes our preliminary attempts at processing such a rifled gun barrel tube made of alumina. Over and above the lands and grooves in the ID, the barrel had to have a 10:1 twist (one complete twist in 250-mm) incorporated into it. The current paper describes the preliminary efforts of fabricating an alumina gun barrel tube that was around 100-mm long with a 25-mm inner diameter (ID), a 33-mm outer diameter, and eight lands and eight grooves. The rifling lands and grooves and desired twist rate, coupled with the difficulty of machining ceramics, makes the economic manufacturing of such gun barrels extremely difficult. The processing of ceramic gun barrels with internal rifling pattern poses a tremendous processing challenge to the materials community. The potential use of ceramic tubes as gun barrels may be severely limited due to the difficulty in introducing the rifling on the inner diameter. Ceramic gun barrels have the potential to provide a significant increase in barrel life as well as reduction in weight for small caliber systems.

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