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Nationality
  
Swiss

Name
  
Eduard Rubin

Title
  
Lieutenant Colonel


Notable work
  
Citizenship
  
Swiss

Died
  
1920

Born
  
17 July 1846 (
1846-07-17
)

Occupation
  
Director of the Swiss Federal Ammunition Factory and Research Center in Thun

Known for
  
Invention of the full metal jacket bullet

Eduard Alexander Rubin (17 July 1846 – 6 July 1920) was a Swiss mechanical engineer who is most notable for having invented the full metal jacket bullet in 1882. His most famous cartridge was the 7.5×55mm Swiss which was the standard ammunition for the Schmidt–Rubin, K31 and Stgw 57 military rifles. His fully copper clad bullets were also the inspiration for the full metal jacket bullets introduced in 1886 for the Lebel rifle. He served as director of the Swiss Federal Ammunition Factory and Research Center in Thun. He held the rank of colonel in the Swiss military and was married to Rosina Susanna Leuzinger, daughter of Swiss cartographer Rudolf Leuzinger.

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Eduard Rubin Wikipedia


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