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The 1718 gun with square bullets to convince the Turks of Christian civilization

In 1718, British inventor James Puckle patented what may have been the world's first machine gun - a tripod-mounted, ...
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What Did the World's First Machine Gun Sound Like? (Throughline+)

Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...