On this day in 1903 Sylvester H. Strasser was granted the patent for Gun for Shooting Marbles. U.S. Patent No. 729,444.

The object of this invention is to construct the barrel of the gun in a simple manner from sheet metal, at the same time adapting such barrel to receive and withstand the impact of the head of the plunger which throws the marble.

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