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INN

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 241 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
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I-10, Parts of
frame
 ;
Breech plug;
12, Striker;
13, Extractor;
14, Cartridge receiver;
the
Gatling
 , the most important of the hand-operated
machine
  guns was the Nordenfeldt, which was principally designed for naval use about the time when
torpedo
 -boats were beginning to be regarded as dangerous antagonists.
' The U.S. pattern
Gatling
  hardly differed except in details from the model, above described, of twenty years earlier. The drum had been set horizontally instead of vertically and improved in de-tails, and a " gravity feed," a tall vertical charger, was also used. The barrels were surrounded with a light casing. Tests made of the improved Gatling showed that the use of only one barrel at a time prevented overheating. On one trial 63,000 rounds were fired without a jam, and without stopping to clean the barrels. Smokeless powder and the
modern
  cartridge case were of course used.
2 The following particulars may be given of the 2-barrelled Gardner and 3-barrelled Nordenfeldt (land service) converted to take the .303 cartridge:
Weight
 , 92 and to lb respectively;
parapet
  mounting in each case 168 lb; rate of fire of Gardner about 250 rounds per minute, of the Nordenfeldt about 350. A few of these guns are still used in fortresses and
coast
  defences.succession. In this piece, careful aim can be taken from a moving platform, and at the right moment the barrels can be fired at the
object
  almost simultaneously.


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