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Repeating and multi-fire weapons : a history from the Zhuge crossbow through the AK-47 /
"From the earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have been anxious to develop weapons with more firepower. This inevitably led a wide variety of repeating weapons, capable of a degree of sustained fire without reloading. Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Glossary; Section I: Early Repeating Weapons; One. Repeating Weapons from the Ancient World; Section II: Without Black Powder; Two. Perkins's Steam Gun and Other Oddities; Section III: The Black Powder Era; Three. Early Military Rockets; Four. Early Black Powder Weapons; Five. Early Repeating Pistols and Colt's Percussion Revolvers; Six. The Rimfire Revolver and Rollin White's Patent; Seven. Pinfire and Centerfire Revolvers; Eight. Repeating Rifles and Shotguns; Nine. Early Machine Guns and Repeating Cannon
- Ten. The Gatling Gun: Gatling's 150-Year-Old MasterpieceSection IV: The Smokeless Powder Era; Eleven. Maxim's Automatic Machine Gun: "The Devil's Paintbrush"; Twelve. Smokeless Powder and Repeating Rifles; Thirteen. Self-Loading or Semiautomatic Pistols; Section V: The Machine-Gun Era; Fourteen. The Development of Repeating and Multi-fire Weapons in the Early 20th Century; Fifteen. Light Machine Guns in World War I; Sixteen. Medium and Heavy Machine Guns in World War I; Seventeen. Submachine Guns, Semiautomatic Rifles and Postwar Changes
- Eighteen. Light Machine Gun Development After World War INineteen. Heavy Machine Gun and Automatic Cannon Development After World War I; Twenty. Assault Rifles and the Rise of the "Woolworth's" Gun; Twenty-One. Perspectives; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index