Gatling Gun

Is a machine gun, the 1 inch composed of six and the 1 ⁄ 2 inch of ten rifled barrels of steel, made to revolve around a central axis parallel to their bores, by means of a hand crank. As each barrel comes opposite to the hopper on the left side of the cylinder, a self-primed metal case cartridge falls into a groove of the cartridge-carrier, is pre ed into the breech by a plunger, and held there until exploded by the firing-pin. The empty case is withdrawn from the barrel by an extractor attached to the cylinder containing the firing-pin. With each revolution of the crank the 1-inch gun fires once, and the 1 ⁄ 2 -inch gun three times. The 1 ⁄ 2 -inch gun is reduced to caliber.45 inch, in order to use with it the projectile of the breech-loading musket.