Animation on how Classic rapid fire Firearms worked Internally

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Some breathtaking animation


Gardner 2 barrel Machine Gun (1879)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPnIIM4Il9U



Gardner 5 Barrel Machine Gun 1882

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWtcp0BnOcs



Gatling 1862

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2fJTG2crSE



Gatling 1874

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qEToARkIM



Montigny Mitrailleuse 1863

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497Htfzz1nc




Reffy Mitrailleuse 1867

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3haWrRtrY




Hotchkiss 37mm Revolving Cannon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkOP8Lwdmgg

The Hotchkiss is just beautiful
 
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Now that is cool.
thanks for posting the links, but me-thinks the mods will lock this as a "drive-by."
I hope I am wrong, there are a lot of things to discuss in these videos. I am often more interested in the inner-workings of firearms than I am in actually shooting them. The mechanics of many guns, especially older types, is simply amazing to me.
 
That's neat. There's a fellow in So CO who used to make them (22 LR version). He's too much in the bottle right now to do anything productive. :(
 
Amazing mechanical representations and interesting graphics. The more I study automatic mechanisms, the more I find that basically every operating principal or mechanical mechanism had been discovered prior to 1900. What occurred since then was the refinement of features and the application of better material technology.

I was reading the August 1936's Army Ordnance Magazine "Fixed Barrel Automatic Firearms" by Heinrich Wimmersperg, and the last paragraph was of interest:

"The manufacturing technique of firearms has progressed but there have been scarcely any new ideas introduced. The patents registered around 1900 are not only a source of inspiration for every inventor of firearms, but also a source of disappointment-which cannot but increase our reverence of pioneers in the field of fixed-barrel, automatic weapons”
 
This isn't a drive by.

The hallmark of a drive by is the posting of a link (often without clearly identifying what's there) and expecting everyone else to pick up the conversation.

While TFL is primarily a conversation site, it's also a site for the sharing of information, and these videos have information in spades.


As for the Hotchkiss, I've recounted here (http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536160&highlight=hotchkiss+naval starting post 69) how we found one when I was working at the Pennsylvania State Museum and Historical Commission.

I never knew how they worked, though.
 
Snarky?? I do not think I was snarky??? I usually call colorful names when I am snarky.. No I was just publicly grateful for finding out that my post meet the Minimal bar. I was worried.
 
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