GB Patent: GB-171,800,418
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| Portable gun or machine called a Defence, thatt Gischarges soe often and soe many Bulletts, and can be soe Quickly Loaden as renders it next to Impossible to Cary any Ship by Boarding
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Patentee:
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| James Puckle (exact or similar names) - London, England |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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May 15, 1716 |
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Wikipedia article on the Puckle gun
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| This is considered by some to be the first machine gun, and the specification essentially claims it as such. But it is a flintlock and its design is more fanciful than realistic. Apparently a couple of examples were built, one that fired round shot that was intended for use against Christian enemies, and a second that fired bullets that were square in cross-section, for use against "the Muslim Turks...(to) convince the Turks of the Benefits of Christian civilization."This gun has a single barrel and multiple chambers. A crank is used to turn the barrel to the next chamber, the crank is secured to form a tight seal between chamber and barrel, the flintlock is primed and a trigger can then be pulled. In a test it was able to fire nine rounds per minute for seven minutes. Nearly a century earlier, the Kalthoff Repeater was able to fire much faster than this. |
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