Privilege to the countable projectile, issued to the music teacher Kummer on March 29, 1847 for 10 years
I continue to publish Russian privileges on computers. The second of the patents known to me (and not only to me - the device was very popular, applied for a good hundred years). Source: “Magazine of Manufactures and Trade”, 1847, No. 4-5.
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PS This is what Kummer's counting shells looked like, produced in Europe after more than half a century, already under other names.