The Machine Gun
History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and
Airborne Repeating Weapons

 

by

George M. Chinn
Lieutenant Colonel, USMC

 

Prepared for the Bureau of Ordnance
Department of the Navy  

1951


CONTENTS

Volume I
PART I FORERUNNERS OF THE MACHINE GUN
PART II MANUALLY OPERATED MACHINE GUNS
PART III FULL AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN DEVELOPMENT
PART IV AIRCRAFT AND AIRBORNE WEAPONS
PART V AUTOMATIC AIRCRAFT CANNON
APPENDICES
A. Patents on Machine Guns and Relating Mechanisms upon which the World's Automatic Weapons Have Been Based
B. Tabulated Characteristics of Machine Guns and Aircraft Cannon
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Volume II [Under construction]
PART VII WEAPON DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION AND HER SATELLITES

Volume III [130 MB pdf]
PART VIII AUTOMATIC WEAPON DEVELOPMENT DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II BY THE UNITED STATES
PART IX AUTOMATIC WEAPON DEVELOPMENT DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II BY OTHER WORLD POWERS EXCEPT USSR AND HER SATELLITES

Volume IV [84MB pdf]
PART X ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS
PART XI SCHEMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE MECHANISMS

Volume V [118MB pdf]
PART XII POWER DRIVEN CANNONS AND MACHINE GUNS
PART XIII RECOIL (RECIPROCATING) OPERATED CANNONS AND MACHINE GUNS
PART XIV REVOLVER CANNONS
PART XV GRENADE LAUNCHER MACHINE GUNS
PART XVI AMMUNITION DEVELOPMENT
PART XVII RELEVANT PATENTS IN PUBLIC DOMAIN 1952-1971



Transcribed and formatted by Larry Jewell & Patrick Clancey, HyperWar Foundation