Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons: A History from the Zhuge Crossbow Through the AK-47
Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons: A History from the Zhuge Crossbow Through the AK-47
Editor/Author
Prenderghast, Gerald
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: McFarland
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4766-6666-2
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
316
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of repeating and multi-fire weapons, beginning with the Chinese repeating crossbow in the 4th century BCE, and ending with the world's most common firearm, the Kalashnikov AK-47.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Glossary
- Section I: Early Repeating Weapons
- One. Repeating Weapons from the Ancient World
- Section II: Without Black Powder
- Two. Perkins’s Steam Gun and Other Oddities
- Section III: The Black Powder Era
- Three. Early Military Rockets
- Four. Early Black Powder Weapons
- Five. Early Repeating Pistols and Colt’s Percussion Revolvers
- Six. The Rimfire Revolver and Rollin White’s Patent
- Seven. Pinfire and Centerfire Revolvers
- Eight. Repeating Rifles and Shotguns
- Nine. Early Machine Guns and Repeating Cannon
- Ten. The Gatling Gun: Gatling’s 150-year-Old Masterpiece
- Section IV: The Smokeless Powder Era
- Eleven. Maxim’s Automatic Machine Gun: “The Devil’s Paintbrush”
- Twelve. Smokeless Powder and Repeating Rifles
- Thirteen. Self-Loading or Semiautomatic Pistols
- Section V: The Machine-Gun Era
- Fourteen. The Development of Repeating and Multi-fire Weapons in the Early 20th Century
- Fifteen. Light Machine Guns in World War I
- Sixteen. Medium and Heavy Machine Guns in World War I
- Seventeen. Submachine Guns, Semiautomatic Rifles and Postwar Changes
- Eighteen. Light Machine Gun Development After World War I
- Nineteen. Heavy Machine Gun and Automatic Cannon Development After World War I
- Twenty. Assault Rifles and the Rise of the “Woolworth’s” Gun
- Twenty-one. Perspectives
- Bibliography