The Machine Gun
History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and
Airborne Repeating Weaponsby
George M. Chinn
Lieutenant Colonel, USMCPrepared for the Bureau of Ordnance
Department of the Navy1951
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