The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanical machine gun. It had one, two or five barrels, was fed from a vertical magazine or hopper and was operated by a crank. When the crank was turned, a feed arm positioned a cartridge in the breech, the bolt closed and the weapon fired.

The Gardner Battery Gun, second only to the Gatling, was produced in greater quantities than the Nordenfeldt or others of the period, was adopted by five countries, tested by four additional, and was manufactured in three. The inventor of the Gardner Battery Gun, William P. Gardner, was born to Darwin E. and Elizabeth P. Gardner at

2015年2月22日 · In Part two of the Gardner Gun we are going discuss the 2 barrel Gardner Gun in depth and go over the differences between the English model and the American model, the Pratt and Whitney.

2016年12月18日 · The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanic machine gun invented in 1874 by William Gardner of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Gardner had served on the Union side during the American Civil War and had witnessed the power of the Gatling gun (an effective mechanic gun consisted of six barrels mounted in a revolving frame).

The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanical machine gun. It had one, two or five barrels, was fed from a vertical magazine or hopper and was operated by a crank. When the crank was turned, a feed arm positioned a cartridge in the breech, the bolt closed and the weapon fired.

This page looks at the mechanism used in William Gardner's 2-barrelled machine guns, specifically his patented design of 1879. By this time Gardner had split from Pratt & Whitney and was running his own company, the Gardner Gun Company, and manufacturing guns in …

William Gardner patented this 5 barrel machine gun in 1881. It fires a .45 inch bullet, and during trials in 1881 demonstrated a firing peak rate of 812 rounds a minute. A major advantage over its competitor, the Gatling gun, was its light weight.

An early American machine gun designed by William Gardner in 1874. The Gardner gun was manually operated, with a crank that fired rounds through two barrels alternately. It was adopted by several armies, including the British, and was an important step in the development of fully automatic weapons.

2010年8月15日 · One of the earliest automatic weapons was the Gardner Gun, invented by one William Gardner of Toledo Ohio. Mr. Gardner had served on the Union side during the US Civil war and had witnessed the power of the Gatling gun. He soon came up with his own design of a machine gun in 1874 and made a hand-made prototype.

2015年2月22日 · The original Gardner guns were made in 577-450, 43 Spanish, 11mm dutch and just about every other military black powder cartridge and 45-70 then finally in 303 British and 6.5 Dutch, can’t remember where I saw this at. The weapon was used up to WW1 by the Dutch. It was even copied by the Nepalese in the form of the Bira Gun.