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The Gorgas machine gun (or sometimes just a Gorgas gun) was a manually cranked prototype machine gun, the creation of Confederate States General Josiah Gorgas. It had a single 1.25 inches caliber smooth-bore barrel. The barrel was fed from a revolver-like ring, but with an axis of rotation perpendicular to the bore, rather than the usual revolver configuration with parallel axes. The cylinder housed 18 copper-lined chambers that were muzzle loaded from the outer side of the ring. The interior side of the multiple-chamber ring was lined with the corresponding 18 percussion cap nipples. The ring was rotated by a hand lever. The gun had a cast iron receiver. The sole exemplar built was not used in combat, not being sufficiently perfected. == See also == *Agar gun *Centrifugal gun *Confederate Revolving Cannon *Gatling gun *Puckle gun *Revolver cannon 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gorgas machine gun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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