This article is about the rifle-caliber "machine gun". For the anti-torpedo boat gun, see 1-inch Nordenfelt gun. For the naval gun, see QF 6 pounder Nordenfelt.
Sailor operating 10-barrel rifle calibre gun, with right hand on lever
Royal Marines with a Nordenfelt 5-barrel rifle calibre gun, 1890.
The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition was gravity fed through chutes for each barrel. It was produced in a number of different calibres up to 25 mm (0.98 in). Larger calibres were also used, but for these calibres the design simply permitted rapid manual loading rather than true automatic fire. This article covers the anti-personnel rifle-calibre (typically 0.45 in (11 mm)) gun.
The Nordenfeltgun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition...
Gardner gun. Handbook for Gardner and Nordenfelt rifle calibre machine guns. 1889, 1891 at State Library of Victoria Handbook for the 0.45" Gardner gun (5...
than previous rapid-firing guns, such as the manually cranked Mitrailleuse, Gatling, Gardner, or Nordenfelt. The Maxim gun was water cooled, allowing...
In the late 19th century, Gatling guns and other externally powered types such as the Nordenfeltgun and Gardner gun were often made in a variety of calibers...
to form The Maxim NordenfeltGuns and Ammunition Company. After a personal bankruptcy Nordenfelt was forced out of the Nordenfelt-Maxim company in 1890...
the Gatling gun and such as volley guns like the Nordenfeltgun. The first known ancestors of multi-shot weapons were medieval organ guns. An early example...
volley guns, particularly in that they use many barrels, which can all be fired once simultaneously or sequentially, such as the Nordenfeltgun. These...
The Maxim-NordenfeltGuns and Ammunition Company was the result of a takeover by Hiram Maxim of Thorsten Nordenfelt'sNordenfeltGuns and Ammunition Company...
Nordenfelt v Maxim NordenfeltGuns and Ammunition Co Ltd [1894] AC 535 is a 19th-century English case decided by the House of Lords. The dispute was about...
artillery. The first quick-firing light gun was the 1-inch Nordenfeltgun, built in Britain from 1880. The gun was expressly designed to defend larger...
(from German Mehrrohrkanone, meaning multi-barrelled gun) can refer to weapons such as the Nordenfeltgun but is more commonly used referring to this naval...
Saint-Chamond tank of 1917, with 75 mm gun in nose Replica of German A7V "Wotan" showing 57 mm Maxim-Nordenfeltgun in front British Mk II tank captured...
An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England...
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Eastern Europe such guns were commonplace into the 17th century. Hwacha Puckle gun Volley gun Wall gun Gardner gunNordenfeltgun AAI In-Line, prototype...
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