Early machine guns

1860s multi-barrel rapid-fire gun of Richard Gatling, or its 1880s-1890s variants

the first self-powered machine gun, invented by Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884

7.7 mm medium machine gun

7.9 mm heavy machine gun

heavy machine gun

8 mm medium machine gun

A mitrailleuse (; from French mitraille, "grapeshot") is a type of volley gun with barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either all rounds at once or in rapid succession. The earliest true mitrailleuse was theorized and proposed in 1851 by Belgian Army captain Fafschamps, ten years before the advent of the Gatling gun. It was followed by the Belgian Montigny mitrailleuse in 1863. Then the French 25 barrel "Canon à Balles", better known as the Reffye mitrailleuse, was adopted in great secrecy in 1866. It became the first rapid-firing weapon deployed as standard equipment by any army in a major

machine gun

gun

type of organ gun

13 mm heavy machine gun

type of large gun

primitive crew-served, manually-operated flintlock revolver patented in 1718 by James Puckle

guns from Hotchkiss arms company

type of regimental artillery field gun

early rapid firing gun, type of hand-cranked machine gun

type of machine gun

Old Machine gun

type of machine gun

The Fokker-Leimberger was an externally powered, 12-barrel rifle-caliber rotary gun developed in Germany during the First World War. The action of the Fokker-Leimberger differed from that of a Gatling in that it employed a rotary split-breech design, also known as a "nutcracker".

United States general (1866-1942)