S | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | [s] [ʃ] [θ] [ts] [ʒ] /ɛs/ |
Unicode value | U+0053, U+0073 |
Alphabetical position | 19 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~-700 to present |
Descendants | • ſ • ß • Ƨ • Ꞅ • $ • ₷ • § • ℠ • ᛋ • ∫ |
Sisters | С Ш Щ Ҫ Ԍ ש ش ܫ س ࠔ ? ? ሠ ㅅ (disputed) ㅆ (disputed) Սս श स શ સ |
Variations | (See below) |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | s(x), sh, sz |
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S (namedess/ɛs/,[1] plural esses[2]) is the 19th letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
- 1History
- 3Related characters
History
Origin
Northwest Semiticšîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative/ʃ/ (as in 'ship'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth (שנא) and represented the phoneme /ʃ/ via the acrophonic principle.[3]
Greek did not have a /ʃ/ phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma (Σ) came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant/s/. While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician šîn, its name sigma is taken from the letter samekh, while the shape and position of samekh but name of šîn is continued in the xi.[citation needed]Within Greek, the name of sigma was influenced by its association with the Greek word σίζω (earlier *sigj-) 'to hiss'. The original name of the letter 'sigma' may have been san, but due to the complicated early history of the Greek epichoric alphabets, 'san' came to be identified as a separate letter, Ϻ.[4]Herodotus reports that 'San' was the name given by the Dorians to the same letter called 'Sigma' by the Ionians.[5]
The Western Greek alphabet used in Cumae was adopted by the Etruscans and Latins in the 7th century BC, over the following centuries developing into a range of Old Italic alphabets including the Etruscan alphabet and the early Latin alphabet.In Etruscan, the value /s/ of Greek sigma (?) was maintained, while san (?)represented a separate phoneme, most likely /ʃ/ (transliterated as ś). The early Latin alphabet adopted sigma, but not san, as Old Latin did not have a /ʃ/ phoneme.
The shape of Latin S arises from Greek Σ by dropping one out of the four strokes of that letter.The (angular) S-shape composed of three strokes existed as a variant of the four-stroke letter Σ already in the epigraphy in Western Greek alphabets, and the three and four strokes variants existed alongside one another in the classical Etruscan alphabet. In other Italic alphabets (Venetic, Lepontic), the letter could be represented as a zig-zagging line of any number between three and six strokes.
The Italic letter was also adopted into Elder Futhark, as Sowilō (ᛊ), and appears with four to eight strokes in the earliest runic inscriptions, but is occasionally reduced to three strokes (ᛋ) from the later 5th century, and appears regularly with three strokes in Younger Futhark.
Long s
The minuscule form ſ, called the long s, developed in the early medieval period, within the Visigothic and Carolingian hands, with predecessors in the half-uncial and cursive scripts of Late Antiquity. It remained standard in western writing throughout the medieval period and was adopted in early printing with movable types. It existed alongside minuscule 'round' or 'short' s, which was at the time only used at the end of words.
In most western orthographies, the ſ gradually fell out of use during the second half of the 18th century, although it remained in occasional use into the 19th century.In Spain, the change was mainly accomplished between the years 1760 and 1766. In France, the change occurred between 1782 and 1793. Printers in the United States stopped using the long s between 1795 and 1810. In English orthography, the London printer John Bell (1745–1831) pioneered the change. His edition of Shakespeare, in 1785, was advertised with the claim that he 'ventured to depart from the common mode by rejecting the long 'ſ' in favor of the round one, as being less liable to error...'[6]The Times of London made the switch from the long to the short s with its issue of 10 September 1803. Encyclopædia Britannica's 5th edition, completed in 1817, was the last edition to use the long s.
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In German orthography, long s was retained in Fraktur (Schwabacher) type as well as in standard cursive (Sütterlin) well into the 20th century, and was officially abolished in 1941.[7]The ligature of ſs (or ſz) was retained, however, giving rise to the Eszett, ß in contemporary German orthography.
Use in writing systems
S& W Serial Number Lookup Number
The letter ⟨s⟩ is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common consonant after ⟨t⟩ and ⟨n⟩.[8] It is the most common letter in starting and ending position.[citation needed]
In English and several other languages, primarily Western Romance ones like Spanish and French, final ⟨s⟩ is the usual mark of pluralnouns. It is the regular ending of English third personpresent tenseverbs.
⟨s⟩ represents the voiceless alveolar or voiceless dental sibilant/s/ in most languages as well as in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It also commonly represents the voiced alveolar or voiced dental sibilant/z/, as in Portuguesemesa (table) or English 'rose' and 'bands', or it may represent the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative[ʃ], as in most Portuguese dialects when syllable-finally, in Hungarian, in German (before ⟨p⟩, ⟨t⟩) and some English words as 'sugar', since yod-coalescence became a dominant feature, and [ʒ], as in English 'measure' (also because of yod-coalescence), European PortugueseIslão (Islam) or, in many sociolects of Brazilian Portuguese, esdrúxulo (proparoxytone) in some Andalusian dialects, it merged with Peninsular Spanish ⟨c⟩ and ⟨z⟩ and is now pronounced [θ]. In some English words of French origin, the letter ⟨s⟩ is silent, as in 'isle' or 'debris'.
The ⟨sh⟩ digraph for English /ʃ/ arises in Middle English (alongside ⟨sch⟩), replacing the Old English ⟨sc⟩ digraph. Similarly, Old High German ⟨sc⟩ was replaced by ⟨sch⟩ in Early Modern High German orthography.
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- ſ : Latin letter long S, an obsolete variant of S
- ẜ ẝ : Various forms of long S were used for medieval scribal abbreviations[9]
- ẞ ß : German Eszett or 'sharp S', derived from a ligature of long s followed by either s or z
- S with diacritics: Ś śṠ ṡ ẛṨ ṩṤ ṥṢ ṣS̩ s̩Ꞩ ꞩŜ ŝṦ ṧŠ šŞ şȘ șS̈ s̈ᶊⱾ ȿ ᵴ[10]ᶳ[11]
- ₛ : Subscript small s was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[12]
- ˢ : Modifier letter small s is used for phonetic transcription
- ꜱ : Small capital S was used in the Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise to mark gemination[13]
- Ʂ ʂ : S with hook, used for writing Mandarin Chinese using the early draft version of pinyin romanization during the mid-1950s[14]
- Ƨ ƨ : Latin letter reversed S (used in Zhuang transliteration)
- IPA-specific symbols related to S: ʃɧ[citation needed]ʂ
- Ꞅ ꞅ : Insular S
Derived signs, symbols, and abbreviations
- $ : Dollar sign
- ₷ : Spesmilo
- § : Section sign
- ℠ : Service mark symbol
- ∫ : Integral symbol, short for summation
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
- ? : Semitic letter Shin, from which the following symbols originally derive
- archaic GreekSigma could be written with different numbers of angles and strokes. Besides the classical form with four strokes (), a three-stroke form resembling an angular Latin S () was commonly found, and was particularly characteristic of some mainland Greek varieties including Attic and several 'red' alphabets.
- Σ: classical Greek letter Sigma
- Ϲ ϲ: Greek lunate sigma
- Ⲥ ⲥ : Coptic letter sima
- С с : Cyrillic letter Es, derived from a form of sigma
- Ϲ ϲ: Greek lunate sigma
- ? : Old Italic letter S, includes the variants also found in the archaic Greek letter
- S: Latin letter S
- ᛊ, ᛋ, ᛌ : Runic letter sowilo, which is derived from Old Italic S
- ?: Gothic letter sigil
- Σ: classical Greek letter Sigma
- archaic GreekSigma could be written with different numbers of angles and strokes. Besides the classical form with four strokes (), a three-stroke form resembling an angular Latin S () was commonly found, and was particularly characteristic of some mainland Greek varieties including Attic and several 'red' alphabets.
Computing codes
Character | S | s | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S | LATIN SMALL LETTER S | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 83 | U+0053 | 115 | U+0073 |
UTF-8 | 83 | 53 | 115 | 73 |
Numeric character reference | S | S | s | s |
ASCII1 | 83 | 53 | 115 | 73 |
- 1Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
Sierra | ··· |
Signal flag | Flag semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASLfingerspelling) | Braille dots-234 |
See also
- See about Ⓢ in Enclosed Alphanumerics
References
- ^Spelled 'es'- in compound words
- ^'S', Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); 'ess,' op. cit.
- ^'corresponds etymologically (in part, at least) to original Semitic ṯ (th), which was pronounced s in South Canaanite' Albright, W. F., 'The Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from Sinai and their Decipherment,' Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 110 (1948), p. 15. The interpretation as 'tooth' is now prevalent, but not entirely certain. The Encyclopaedia Judaica of 1972 reported that the letter represented a 'composite bow'.
- ^Woodard, Roger D. (2006). 'Alphabet'. In Wilson, Nigel Guy. Encyclopedia of ancient Greece. London: Routldedge. p. 38.
- ^'…τὠυτὸ γράμμα, τὸ Δωριέες μὲν σὰν καλέουσι ,Ἴωνες δὲ σίγμα' ('…the same letter, which the Dorians call 'San', but the Ionians 'Sigma'…'; Herodotus, Histories 1.139); cf. Nick Nicholas, Non-Attic lettersArchived 2012-06-28 at Archive.today.
- ^Stanley Morison, A Memoir of John Bell, 1745–1831 (1930, Cambridge Univ. Press) page 105; Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use – a study in survivals (2nd. ed, 1951, Harvard University Press) page 293.
- ^Order of 3 January 1941 to all public offices, signed by Martin Bormann.Kapr, Albert (1993). Fraktur: Form und Geschichte der gebrochenen Schriften. Mainz: H. Schmidt. p. 81. ISBN3-87439-260-0.
- ^'English Letter Frequency'. Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ^Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). 'L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^Constable, Peter (2003-09-30). 'L2/03-174R2: Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^Constable, Peter (2004-04-19). 'L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27). 'L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30). 'L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^West, Andrew; Chan, Eiso; Everson, Michael (2017-01-16). 'L2/17-013: Proposal to encode three uppercase Latin letters used in early Pinyin'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2018-12-26. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- The dictionary definition of S at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of s at Wiktionary
- 'S' . The New Student's Reference Work. 1914.
Smith & Wesson Model 1899 Military & Police | |
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Lend-Lease M&P dating from World War II, missing lanyard ring | |
Type | |
Place of origin | United States |
Service history | |
In service | 1899-Present |
Used by | See Users |
Wars | World War I Easter Rising Irish War of Independence World War II Korean War Vietnam War Gulf War The Troubles other conflicts |
Production history | |
Designed | 1899 |
Manufacturer | Smith & Wesson |
Produced | 1899–present |
Variants | 38 M&P M&P Model 1902 Model of 1905 Victory Model Model 10 |
Specifications | |
Mass | ~ 34 oz (907 g) with standard 4' (102 mm) barrel (unloaded) |
Barrel length |
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Cartridge | .38 Long Colt .38 Special .38/200 (.38 S&W) |
Action | Double action |
Muzzle velocity | 1,000 feet per second (300 m/s) (.38 Special) 685 feet per second (209 m/s) (.38/200) |
Feed system | 6-round cylinder |
Sights | Blade front sight, notched rear sight |
The Smith & Wesson Model 10, previously known as the Smith & Wesson .38 Hand Ejector Model of 1899, the Smith & Wesson Military & Police or the Smith & Wesson Victory Model, is a revolver of worldwide popularity. In production since 1899, the Model 10 is a six-shot, .38 Special, double-action revolver with fixed sights. Over its long production run it has been available with barrel lengths of 2 in (51 mm), 3 in (76 mm), 4 in (100 mm), 5 in (130 mm), and 6 in (150 mm). Barrels of 2.5 inches (64 mm) are also known to have been made for special contracts.[1] Some 6,000,000 of the type have been produced over the years, making it the most popular handgun of the 20th century.[2]
- 1History
- 2Model 10 Variants
- 4Users
History[edit]
In 1899, the United States Army and Navy placed orders with Smith & Wesson for two to three thousand Model 1899 Hand Ejector revolvers chambered for the M1892 .38 Long Colt U.S. Service Cartridge. With this order, the Hand Ejector Model became known as the .38 Military and Police model.[3] That same year, in response to reports from military sources serving in the Philippines on the relative ineffectiveness of the new cartridge, Smith & Wesson began offering the Military & Police in a new chambering, .38 S&W Special (a.k.a. .38 Special), a slightly elongated version of the .38 Long Colt cartridge with greater bullet weight (158 grains) and powder charge increased from 18 to 21 grains of gunpowder.[3]
In 1902 the .38 Military & Police (2nd Model) was introduced, featuring substantial changes.[1] These included major modification and simplification of the internal lockwork and the addition of a locking underlug on the barrel to engage the previously free-standing ejector rod. Barrel lengths were 4-, 5-, 6-, and 6.5-inches with a rounded butt. Serial numbers for the Military & Police ranged from number 1 in the series to 20,975. Most of the early M&P revolvers chambered in .38 Special appear to have been sold to the civilian market.[3] By 1904, S&W was offering the .38 M&P with a rounded or square butt, and 4-, 5-, and 6.5-inch barrels.
World War I[edit]
The .38 S&W Military & Police Model of 1905 4th Change, introduced 1915, incorporated a passive hammer block and enlarged service sights that quickly became a standard across the service revolver segment of the industry. The M&P revolver was issued in large numbers during World War I, where it proved itself to be a highly reliable and accurate weapon. Although WWI saw the rise of semi-automatic pistols, revolvers such as the M&P were often the weapon of choice, as they were generally considered more reliable and easier to use than automatic pistols.
After the War, the M&P would become the standard issue police sidearm for the next 70 years. It would also become very popular with civilian shooters, with several new models being made, including the first snubnosed 2-, 2.5- and 3-barrel models being made in 1936.[1][4]
World War II[edit]
The S&W M&P military revolvers produced from 1942 to 1944 had serial numbers with a 'V' prefix, and were known as the Smith & Wesson Victory Model. It is noteworthy that early Victory Models did not always have the V prefix. During World War II over 570,000 of these pistols were supplied to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa under the Lend-Lease program, chambered in the British .38/200 caliber already in use in the Enfield No 2 Mk I Revolver and the Webley Mk IV Revolver. Most Victory Models sent to Britain were fitted with 4-inch or 5-inch barrels, although a few early versions had 6-inch barrels.[5][6]
The Victory Model was used by United States forces during World War II, being chambered in the well-known and popular .38 Special cartridge. The Victory Model was a standard-issue sidearm for United States Navy and Marine Corps aircrews, and was also used by security guards at factories and defense installations throughout the United States during the war.[7]
Some of these revolvers remained in service well into the 1990s with units of the United States Armed Forces, including the United States Air Force and the Coast Guard. Until the introduction of the Beretta M9 9mm pistol in 1990, U.S. Army helicopter crew members and female military police officers were equipped with .38 caliber Victory Model revolvers. Criminal Investigation Division agents were issued .38 caliber revolvers with two inch barrels. The Victory Model remained in use with Air National Guard tanker and transport crews as late as Operation Desert Storm in 1991, and with United States Navy security personnel until 1995.[8]
Some Lend-Lease Victory Model revolvers originally chambered for the British .38/200 were returned to the United States and rechambered to fire the more popular and more powerful .38 Special ammunition, and such revolvers are usually so marked on their barrels. Rechambering of .38-200 cylinders to .38 Special results in oversized chambers, which may cause problems. Lee Harvey Oswald was carrying a re-chambered Victory Model when he was apprehended on November 22, 1963.[9]
The finish on Victory Models was typically a sandblasted and parkerized finish, which is noticeably different from the higher-quality blue or nickel/chrome finishes usually found on commercial M&P/Model 10 revolvers. Other distinguishing features of the Victory Model revolver are the lanyard loop at the bottom of the grip frame, and the use of smooth (rather than checkered) walnut grip panels. However some early models did use a checkered grip, most notably the pre-1942 manufacture.[10]
Model 10[edit]
After World War II, Smith & Wesson returned to manufacturing the M&P series. Along with cosmetic changes and replacement of the frame fitting grip with the Magna stocks, the spring-loaded hammer block safety gave way to a cam-actuated hammer block that rode in a channel in the side plate (Smith 1968). In 1957, Smith & Wesson adopted the convention of using numeric designations to distinguish their various models of handguns, and the M&P was renamed the Model 10.[8]
The M&P/Model 10 has been available in both blued steel finish and nickel finish for most of its production run. The model has also been offered throughout the years with both the round butt and square butt grip patterns. Beginning with the Model 10-5 series in the late 1960s, the tapered barrel and its trademark 'half moon' front sight (as shown in the illustrations on this page) were replaced by a straight bull barrel and a sloped milled ramp front sight. Late model Model 10s are capable of handling any .38 Special cartridge produced today up to and including +P+ rounds.[8]
As of 2012 the Model 10 was available only in a 4-inch barrel model, as was its stainless steel (Inox) counterpart, the Smith & Wesson Model 64.[11] Some 6,000,000 M&P revolvers have been produced over the years, making it the most popular handgun of the 20th century.[12]
Model 10 Variants[edit]
Model | Year | Modifications |
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10 | 1957 | Introduction |
10-1 | 1959 | Heavy barrel introduced |
10-2 | 1961 | Change extractor rod thread for standard barrel |
10-3 | 1961 | Change extractor rod thread for heavy barrel, change front sight width from 1/10' to 1/8' |
10-4 | 1962 | Eliminate trigger-guard screw on standard barrel frame |
10-5 | 1962 | Change sight width from 1/10' to 1/8' on standard barrel |
10-6 | 1962 | Eliminate trigger-guard screw on heavy-barrel frame |
10-7 | 1977 | Change gas ring from yoke to cylinder for standard barrel |
10-8 | 1977 | Change gas ring from yoke to cylinder for heavy barrel |
10-9 | 1988 | Replace yoke retention system, radius stud package, floating hand hammer nose bushing for standard barrel |
10-10 | 1988 | Replace yoke retention system, radius stud package, floating hand hammer nose bushing for heavy barrel |
10-11 | 1997 | MIM hammer/trigger and floating firing pin for standard barrel |
10-12 | 1997 | MIM hammer/trigger + floating firing pin for heavy barrel |
10-13 | 2002 | Limited production 1899 commemorative edition |
10-14 | 2002 | Internal lock added |
10-14 | 2010 | Discontinued |
10-14 | 2012 | Reintroduce as part of the Classic Line |
.357 Magnum variations[edit]
After a small prototype run of Model 10-6 revolvers in .357 Magnum caliber, Smith & Wesson introduced the Model 13 heavy barrel in carbon steel and then the Model 65 in stainless steel. Both revolvers featured varying barrel weights and lengths—generally three and four inches with and without underlugs (shrouds). Production dates begin in 1974 for the Model 13 and end upon discontinuation in 1999. The Model 65 was in production from 1972-1999.[1] Both the blued and stainless models were popular with police and FBI, and a variation of the Model 65 was marketed in the Lady Smith line from 1992 to 1999.
.38 S&W variations[edit]
From the Late 1940's to early 1960's Smith & Wesson made a Variation of the Model 10 chambered for .38 S&W called the Model 11[13] that was sent to British Commonwealth countries to supply their armies[13] and police forces.[14] they were also sent to Canada as well.[15]
Replacement[edit]
The S&W Model 10 revolver was a popular weapon before the semi-automatic pistol replaced the revolver in many police departments, as well as police units and armies.
- Certain units of the Ireland's Gardaí (Irish Police) had replaced the Model 10 by the SIG Sauer P226 and Walther P99C semi-automatic pistols.
- Victoria Police replaced the K frame model 10 with the M&P in .40 S&W.
- New Zealand Police replaced the revolver with the Glock 17.[8]
- New South Wales Police Force replaced the Model 10 with the Glock 22, Glock 23 and Glock 27.
- The weapon was used by Norway's Home Guard until 1986 and the Norwegian Police Service until 2008, being replaced by the Heckler & Koch P30
- Portugal police replaced the weapon by the Walther PP, subsequently by the Glock 19.[8]
- Royal Malaysia Police used Model 10 as standard sidearm from early 1970 alongside Model 15 before it fully replaced by Beretta PX4 and Walther P99. It was used by Police Volunteer Reserve as standard sidearm and also by RELA Corps for training and self-defence purpose for their officers alongside with Smith & Wesson Model 36 2 inch barrel.[8]
- The Model 10 was formerly the standard issue for many firearms-trained police officers in the United Kingdom and in many forces they were replaced by the Glock 17.[8]
- The weapon was used by United States Army and United States Marine Corps, only to be replaced by the M1911A1 and the M9 pistols.[8] Prior to the introduction of the M9 pistol in 1986, the Army issued Model 10s to helicopter crew members and female military police officers. Snub nose versions were used by Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents.
Users[edit]
Many of the S & W Military & Police revolvers were captured and used by some of the police forces, such as the Austrian Police, during the occupation after World War II. It is incorrect to refer to them as 'the Model 10' as model numbers were not introduced by Smith & Wesson until 1957. Note that, during First World War, copies (slightly undersized) of the Military & Police were produced in Eibar and Guernica (Spain), in 8mm 1892 caliber for the French armies; the Milice man on the right holds such a copy.
The weapon is currently[when?] used by French cash couriers and banks, Disciplined Services of Hong Kong, Myanmar Police Force officers and other Burmese paramilitary units, Peruvian National Police and other police units.
A few copies of Smith & Wesson Model 10 were produced in Israel by Israel Military Industries (IMI) as the Revolver IMI 9mm. The weapon was chambered in the 9mm Luger caliber, instead of .38 Special, the original caliber.[16][17] Also, Norinco of China has manufactured the NP50, which is a copy of the Smith & Wesson Model 64, since 2000.
Serial Number Lookup For Guns
List[edit]
- Algeria[18]
- Australia[19] - Was used by police across the country. Replaced by multiple different semi-automatic pistols between 1990-2010.
- Canada- Various Police Forces.
- China[8]
- Costa Rica[8]
- France[8]
- Hong Kong- Hong Kong Police Force.[8]
- Iceland- Armed officers of the Icelandic Police, Replaced by the Glock 17. The Icelandic Coast Guard has also used the Model 10 in the past.
- Iran[20]
- Ireland- Armed units of the Garda Síochána (To be phased out).
- Israel[8]
- Jamaica
- Japan - Used in some prefectural police headquarters since late 1940s.[21]
- Jordan
- Kingdom of Laos: Received from US Government during Laotian Civil War.[22]
- Latvia
- Libya[23]
- Malaysia[8]
- Myanmar
- New Zealand[19]
- Norway - standard firearm of Norwegian Police Service from 1981 until about 2007.
- Peru[8]
- Philippines[8]
- Portugal[8]
- Saudi Arabia[8]
- Singapore: Used by the Singapore Police Force before switching to the Taurus Model 85 revolvers in 2002 and the Model 85 revolver's are still in service today.
- South Africa[19]
- South Korea[8]
- South Vietnam[24][25]
- Vietnam[8]
- Thailand[8]
- Turkey- Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish National Police).[26] Used between 1951 and the mid 1990s.
- United Kingdom - formerly a police-issue weapon.[8]
- United States- Various Police Forces, Different prisons who had armed guards, Also used by the US Army.[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdSupica, Jim; Richard Nahas (2001). Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson. Iola Wisconsin: Krause Publications. p. 1068.
- ^Boorman, Dean K., The History of Smith & Wesson Firearms (2002), p. 46: 'The .38 in Military and Police Model 10 has historically been the mainstay of the Smith & Wesson Company, with some 6,000,000 of this general type produced to date. It has been described as the most successful handgun of all time, and the most popular centerfire revolver of the 20th Century.'
- ^ abcCumpston, Mike (2003-01-16). 'The First M&P'. Gunblast.com. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
- ^http://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read-free/smith-wesson-hand-guns/sw-terrier/ Smith & Wesson did not succumb to the fad for short-barreled revolvers until 1936, when the firm brought out what was termed the 'S&W .38/32 2″,' later christened the 'Terrier' which was simply the round butt Regulation Police Model with a two-inch barrel.
- ^Shore, C. (Capt), With British Snipers to the Reich, Paladin Press (1988), p. 55
- ^Dunlap, Roy, Ordnance Went Up Front, Samworth Press (1948), p. 142
- ^Ayoob, Massad (15 March 2010). Massad Ayoob's Greatest Handguns of the World. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. p. 71. ISBN978-1-4402-1503-2.
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Preview — S. by J.J. Abrams
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown..more
After reading through the foreword (with all the notes, no matter the colour), I did a little research on how to go about this…moreIt's fantastic!!!
After reading through the foreword (with all the notes, no matter the colour), I did a little research on how to go about this thing! There's no right way to read it, but here's how *I'm* doing it:
1) Read through chapter (and pencilled notes).
2) Go back and read notes written in blue & black. (After a few chapters, I actually just started reading both these and the pencilled at the same time. So, now I'm reading chapter by chapter, along with the pencilled, blue, and black notes. Watch out--the black & black notes can fool you. Those are the very last.)
3) I finished the whole book this way yesterday and have now started going back to the beginning to read the next notes, which are in orange and green.
4) After that, I'll go back (again) and read the notes in purple & red.
5) And again in black & black.
It's hard to completely ignore the 'future colours,' but do your best, because there will be spoilers, otherwise. Sometimes the 'future colours' will give you a hint about the item that's tucked into that page, though, so it can be a good thing. (I read all the notes, cards, etc. tucked into the book as I came across them, and they do give you some spoilers, so I'm trying to be more careful. There's one hand-written note towards the back ['To my new friends:'] that I think needs to be read later, so I'll read that when it's the right time. )
I haven't figured out how to use the decoder yet..hoping that gets explained in a note.
Here's a list of what page each insert is on (in case one falls out--I had that happen!): http://sfiles22.blogspot.com/2013/01/..
Some people take each one out and put a post-it on them with its page number, but I didn't.
There's some good sites out there. Here's one:
http://whoisstraka.wordpress.com/, which includes this spoiler-free beginner's guide:
http://whoisstraka.wordpress.com/the-..
I haven't delved too terribly deeply into a lot of the other stuff, though, because I did find a spoiler.
Good luck!(less)
More lists with this book..
Does a trip to the supermarket become a frantic sortie into a grocerian wilderness? Do battles rage between produce and deli, with stalks of celery raining like arrows upon quivering chunks of roast beef and aged Vermont cheddar? Are the pizzas lurking in a control room behind the freezer case, broadcasting shortwave signals that force the croutons, lemminglike, to hurl themselves from the shelves to the floor where they lie, helpless, waiting to be crushe..more
2.5 Stars
S. By J.J. Abrams is a beautiful hardback carefully distressed to look like an old Library book with its old book smell and stuffed full of notes, postcards, papers and bits and pieces.
When I received this book in the post I was pleasantly suprised with the faboulus concept and design. I loved the idea and could not wait to start this novel. I loved the margin notes to begin with and was fascinated to see how this story would play out.
I have to admit for all its gimmicks I soon foun..more
TEN. FUCKING. STARS.
Okay, actually, in my mind it's more like 9.5 as I had some quibbles with the last chapter, however '9.5 stars' didn't quite sound right for a heading. Reading this book was an 'Experience'. There was pure joy for me in this act. What more could anyone ask?
[Review to be continued, when I've had time to process it all. Also, the Chaos Reading group is doing a group read - discussion starts January 12th.]
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There are a lot of things that I could say about this book, and I almost wish that I could go back to my freshman English class where we studied nested narratives and I wrote a paper about The Neverending Story, so that I could write about this instead. If I can compare this book to anything, it would be House of Leaves. I've always enjoyed non-linear and experimental narrative forms, a..more
This has been such an amazing, unique experience. I wholeheartedly applaud J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst for creating this puzzling, entertaining side of literature. Everything was so well developed, every facet coming together in such a satisfying way. Prose, notes, postcards, pictures, maps, newspaper articles, codes… This was not just a book. It was a project. A bold one at that.
It was almost entirely perfect were it not for the Obituary. Being Brazilian, one of my biggest pet peeves –..more
Inspired by E. A. Poe (modified by A. Reader)
During the winter of the year 2013, while residing in Dubai, UAE, I casually made the acquaintance of S.
I gazed at S. wonderingly - bathed in the full knowledge of S.'s origins--Abrams royalty. Conceived by JJ and brought to life by his partner, D Dorst, their imaginations were singularly vigorous and creative. S. no doubt derived additional force in this world from such privileged entry, albeit from a long and arduous labor.
S. was rema..more
Random thing not really relevant but interesting to me because it's in my home town: the only place mentioned by name in 'The Ship of Theseus' is Fort Point.
S. is by far the most intricate novel I have read in the past few years. Even the monumental work of James Joyce in Ulysses cannot quite compare to the full flavour and power of the metafiction and post-modern styling of Doug Dorst's work (inspired by the ideas of J.J. Abrams). Certainly it is a major call to state that a modern work of this kind could be more of a puzzle than Joyce's depiction of Dublin and yet I believe that it is (or at least as convoluted a labyrinth in its way). However, I..more
In these times of Kindles, Nooks, and iBooks, a novel like S. is a really exciting breath of fresh air. It's truly a love letter to physical books and a great effort in interactive reading and storytelling. The novel, written in a collaboration between film director J. J. Abrams and novelist Doug Dorst, is a story within a story within a story. The book contains 'Ship of Theseus', the final novel of the critically popular but mysterious author V. M. Straka (who disappeared under unkno..more
How to read this? After some research I came up with this:
(view spoiler)[1st - Plain Text, footnotes and maybe the pencilled notes
2nd - Black and Blue
3rd - Green and Gold
4th - Purple and Red
Leave the inserted tidbits, where they are. You‘ll figure out at what point to read them.
Trying not to get distracted by the margins and the inserts could be challenging, but I managed to mostly ignore them during my first pass. (hide spoiler)]
Here is one of the many webpages extr..more
If I weren't reading way too many books at once right now, I'd just plop down and get going.
***HERE THERE BE SPOILERS***(probably, it's hard to talk about this book without spoilers)
hearts and souls and lives can themselves be sites of unimaginable suffering.
'What is S.?' is quite probably one of the most difficult questions I have ever found myself trying to answer. S. is not s..more
Firstly, I have to put it out there - this is the highest of high-concept books I think I have ever read. 5+★ for that. I was so excited to collect it from the library, along with a..more
1) This is the most intricate piece of literature I have ever read.
2) JJ Abrams is a fucking smart dude. (Doug Dorst too)
S. is nothing like anything I've read before. The main story is Ship of Theseus written by a writer no one knows the identity of who goes by V.M. Straka. On its own is a wonderful story. The other story is about Eric and Jen, two readers brought together through this book, communicating in messages in the margins. The color of their p..more
Fantastic and yet ultim..more
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Molto in difficoltà nel dare una valutazione secondo canoni standard, ma direi almeno 4,5 (arrotondato per eccesso)!
Ebbene, lo ammetto: con un misto di apprensione, curiosità, mistica devozione per questo esperimento letterario così discusso, ho iniziato la lettura di 'S. La nave di Teseo' (solo 'S.' nell'originale).
[No, un attimo. Prima c’è stato un lungo, complesso e logorante processo di decisione: lo prendo?..more
Featured in my Top 20 Books I Read in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X6OQ..
More literary-board game than novel, S. is way more over-the-top gimmicky, way more complex, and waaaaay more well written than I expected. It's a thrilling experience and a wonderful narrative on the nature of escape and commitment, reading for pleasure VS reading for knowledge, the power and limitations of writing and reading.
If you'r..more
Leider konnte ich die Geschichte nicht greifen, es gab keine Geschichte! Der Protagonist von „das Schiff des Theseus“ hatte Amnesie und wusste nicht wo er war und wer er war und irrte herum, die Studenten Eric und Jen waren sehr sympathisch aber haben zu 85% gefachsimpelt und „FXC“ (übersetzer) hat kritische Fußnoten beigetragen, die ich ebenfalls nicht verstanden habe. Die Aufmachung verlor leider rapide seinen Reiz, weil es niemanden dieser Personen je gegeben hat und..more
I absolutely loved it, enjoyed the ride, disliked some of the overly-literary atmosphere that spills off the story (because most of that..more
Is it gimmicky? Absolutely! But who doesn't love a heady dose of such things every once in a while?
Before I can explain why it makes me sad, my first sentence needs a little unpacking — and I mean that quite literally. The book itself is a hefty, weathered-looking hardback bearing the title ‘The Ship of Theseus’ on it..more
The first thing is this book..more
So I think I made a mistake. I read this all in one shot and I don't think that's how I should have read it.
J.J. Abrams had a clever idea about reading a book and seeing a couple writing to each other in the margins of the book. He turned to Doug Dorst to pen the story within a story.
S. is a story about Jen and Eric reading Ship of Theseus by V.M. Straka. Jen and Eric are trying to figure out who Straka is. (turns out he was a mysterious author with a mysterious past) Ship of Theseus is about a..more
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