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).

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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.

2023年3月15日 · The Puckle Gun, as it became known as, was a single-barrel flintlock weapon fitted with a manually-operated revolving cylinder. Consisting of a three-foot-long barrel, its cylinder had the ability to fire nine rounds per minute – an impressive total, given more traditional muskets could only fire three.

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, 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.

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 …

2021年10月13日 · In this video we take a brief look at the history of the Puckle Gun - one of the earliest weapons to be dubbed a machine gun. Invented in 1718 by James Puckle, the Puckle Gun was able to fire...

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.

2016年12月25日 · James Puckle designed it in 1718 as a naval defensive weapon to help British vessels fight back against Ottoman pirates using fast and nimble small boats that could not be effectively engaged with large cannon. Puckle’s gun was a 9-shot repeater of about 1.25″ bore on a flexible swiveling mount which could easily track the fastest marauder.