Nineteenth - century inventors were reluctant to accept this added complication .
Nineteenth - century inventors experimented with a variety of caseless or self - consuming cartridges before finally accepting that the advantages of brass cases far outweighed this one drawback .
Nineteenth - century inventors were reluctant to accept this added complication and experimented with a variety of caseless or self - consuming cartridges before finally accepting that the advantages of brass cases far outweighed this one drawback .