Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ed and the cartridge is fired. As the barrel comes up in thesecond half-re volution the cartridge shell is extracted, and when the barrelreaches the top it receives another cartridge. The Gatling gun can be firedat the rate of 1000 to 1500 shots a minute. It generally uses the same car- THE CENTU
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ed and the cartridge is fired. As the barrel comes up in thesecond half-re volution the cartridge shell is extracted, and when the barrelreaches the top it receives another cartridge. The Gatling gun can be firedat the rate of 1000 to 1500 shots a minute. It generally uses the same car- THE CENTURYS ARMIES AND ARMS 305 tridge as the infantry rifle ; bnt some patterns of the gnu Are a projectile aninch in diameter, and approximate closely in their effect to a field gun is mounted either on a carriage similar to that of a field-piece oron a tripod. Gatling guns were very successfully used by the British in theZulu War and in the Soudan, and by our own troops in the battles aroundSantiago. The Gardner is a lighter machine gun than the Gatling. It consists of twoparallel rifle barrels, and is operated by means of mechanism at the breech,which, as in the case of the Gatling. is worked with a crank. It can fire500 shots a minute without danger of overheating, as the breeches are en-. NOIIDENFKLT KAPID FIRE GUN. closed in a metallic water-jacket. Its extreme portability makes it a mostvaluable weapon, though its firing capacity is not equal to that of theGatling. There are several other types of machine guns, but the most ingenious, andperhaps the most effective, is the Maxim automatic gun. This has a singlebarrel, about two thirds of which, from the muzzle towards the breech, is sur-rounded by a water-jacket into which water is automatically injected at eachdischarge, thus rendering overheating impossible. The mechanism for oper-ating the gun is at the breech, covering the remaining third of the that is necessary is to draw back the trigger to tire the fir
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