Beretta (1526 - ?)

history of mechanical engineering, machine design, firearms

Beretta SpA, in full Fabbrica D’armi Pietro Beretta SpA (Italian: “Pietro Beretta Arms Works Limited”), Italian-based manufacturer of sporting, military, and personal firearms, one of the world’s oldest industrial enterprises. Headquarters are in Gardone Val Trompia, near Brescia, Italy.The founder of the business, Bartolomeo Beretta, was known as a maestro da canne, or master gun-barrel maker, for the republic of Venice as early as 1526. His son Giovannino inherited his father’s work in Gardone Val Trompia, and thereafter the family business was handed down over the centuries in an unbroken chain from fathers to sons or, more lately, nephews. The company manufactures and markets, worldwide, arms for hunters, competition shooters, law-enforcement officers, and military personnel; the products include field and high-grade sporting shotguns, rifles, pistols, military arms, knives, and such accessories as sights and scopes and binoculars.
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History

1526		First written document about the company
* 1526	Gardone Val Trompia (BS)	Bartolomeo Beretta opens an armory
1680		Pietro di Ludovico Beretta founds the Company
1915 - 1920		the company creates many patents of arms
1949		the company became “Pietro Beretta Arms Works Limited”

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Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=24123004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_24123004.html

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Beretta (1526 - ?)