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James Puckle (1667–1724), English inventor, lawyer and writer, patented the Puckle gun in 1718. 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 ...
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 nine rounds per minute.
Puckle gun (1718) Pepper-box (1739) Harmonica gun (1742) Fafting/Fasting rifle: In 1774 a rifle was invented by a Norwegian or Danish colonel by the name of Fafting or Fasting capable of firing 18 to 20 shots a minute and being used as an ordinary rifle by taking off a spring-loaded container attached to the gun's lock.
An early precursor was the Puckle gun of 1718, a large flintlock revolver gun, manually operated. The design idea was impractical, far ahead of what 18th century technology could achieve. During the 19th century, Elisha Collier and later Samuel Colt used the revolver action to revolutionize handguns.
Sir Hiram Maxim, invented the machine gun in 1884. 1718: The Puckle Gun or Defence Gun, a multi-shot gun mounted on a tripod, invented by James Puckle (1667–1724). 1784: Shrapnel shell, an anti-personnel artillery munition, developed by Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842). 1804: The Congreve rocket, a weapon, invented by Sir William Congreve (1772 ...
The Puckle gun is totally manually operated with no components that have anything to do with automating aspects of its fire cycle (the crank is used to manually rotate the cylinder and to form a seal with the breech, and isn't even connected to the lockwork, and unlike other early flintlock revolvers the Puckle can't prime itself through ...
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The most notable use of square bullet designs was by James Puckle and Kyle Tunis who patented them, where they were briefly used in one version of the Puckle gun. The early use of these in the black-powder era was soon discontinued because of the irregular and unpredictable flight patterns.