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The introduction of choke boring may be regarded as W. W. Greener's greatest achievement: his previous inventions had shown his cleverness; this one made him famous throughout the world. Mechanism in a mechanical age like ours is not easy to grow famous upon. But choke boring, as brought out by Greener in 1874, altered the whole system of gun boring, and made close shooting the servant of the gun-maker, where before it had been his Will-o'-the-wisp.