The Puckle gun is a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock weapon fitted with a manually operated [5] revolving cylinder; Puckle advertised its main application as an anti-boarding gun for use on ships. The barrel was 3 feet (0.91 m) long with a bore of 1.25 inches (32 mm).

2023年3月15日 · Developed in 1884, it was the first automatic machine gun, but there were rudimentary models developed well over a century prior. One was the Puckle Gun, which not only failed to see use on the battlefield, but also fired both …

The Puckle Gun, or Defense Gun as it was also known, was invented and patented in 1718 by the London lawyer James Puckle. This early automatic weapon was rather bizarrely designed to fire round bullets at Christians and square bullets at the Muslim Turks.

2023年11月11日 · The Puckle Gun was developed in 1718 by the English Lawyer James Puckle. It was also patented in the year 1718. This is extremely early for automatic weaponry, and a singular fact about the Puckle Gun should illustrate how …

James Puckle (1667–1724) was an English inventor, lawyer and writer from London chiefly remembered for his invention of the Defence Gun, better known as the Puckle gun, a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of (depending on which version) firing up to …

2020年2月4日 · The Puckle Gun was patented by London lawyer, inventor and author James Puckle in 1718. It was officially titled the Defence Gun and was a flintlock weapon with a revolver-like rotating cylinder of 6-11 shots. The weapon could fire an incredible nine shots per minute.

Noted historians have deemed this gun, “The First Machine Gun” – certainly, the first patented machine gun of it’s kind, which was patented by James Puckle on July 25, 1718 in England. But was Puckle the inventor of this gun? Did he have a background in gunsmithing or machining? Was he forward-thinking as the gun insinuates?

The Puckle gun is a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock weapon fitted with a manually operated [5] revolving cylinder; Puckle advertised its main application as an anti-boarding gun for use on ships.

On May 15, 1718, Englishman James Puckle patented his machine gun, the world’s first! You may have thought the Gatling gun or the Maxim machine gun was the first machine gun, but depending on how you define “machine gun” James Puckle, Esq. (yes, he was a lawyer) got there first.

2021年10月1日 · The Puckle gun was designed to be mounted on a tripod. It was a single-barreled flintlock that worked with a revolving cylinder. Puckle tried to sell it as an effective gun that would prevent enemies from the unwanted boarding of European ships.