Hello, everyone, how did the gun come today? Who invented the gun? In fact, some are not clear.
Because this process has been improved N times, to talk about guns, we must first start with gunpowder, one of China's four great inventions. Gunpowder was invented by alchemists in ancient times. The original intention of the invention was to obtain the elixir of life. After all odd attempts, in the end, the gunpowder was misfired and mixed with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. Many people used gunpowder until the Song Dynasty.
There was a military strategist in the Southern Song Dynasty named Chen Gui. He invented a musket, which is simply to get a tube, put gunpowder on, and light it up, which is called a musket. If I didn't get it right, I just lit the fire to spray others.
Later, someone invented the flintlock, the earliest rifle. Put a steel ball in front, shoot it out, the light breathes out fire.
After more than a hundred years later, Westerners also began to make gunpowder. It is not clear whether it was passed down from China or created by them. In short, they also had gunpowder, and then they started making gunpowder.
In 1364, the Italians made the first pistol, 20 cm, called the fire door pistol, also called Xiopi, which means pistol.
Later, the Americans made revolvers again; the British made machine guns; later, the Germans made submachine guns; there is nothing for us Chinese anymore.
There are too many people who invented all kinds of guns, and many of them cannot be verified. However, there is a personal story worth telling, that is, the American father of the revolver, Seyin Colt.
Colt invented the revolver in 1835 and obtained the 6909 patent. Prior to this, guns were arquebus and flintlock guns. The arquebus gun needed to be shot with a bullet. The flintlock gun needed to be manually pulled and turned. It was a waste of time and affected the combat effectiveness.
Colt has been a pistol fan since he was a child. He thought about the gun when he saw it. He always felt that the gun was not right and not easy to use, so Colt planned to make a revolver.
When he graduated from university, he went on a trip and took a steamer to the UK and India. Others are paying attention to the scenery when they are playing, but he is good, he is only interested in the cockpit, sitting in the cockpit for a few hours.
He suddenly discovered that the steering wheel of the helmsman turned left and sometimes right. He thought, if the left and right rotation of the steering wheel were combined with the pistol, wouldn't he be able to make a revolver?
So he redrawn a brand new pistol drawing on the ship based on the principle of the steering wheel, and then made a sample gun out of wood in a hurry. The gun made by
can hold 5~7 rounds at the same time, usually 6 rounds. When shooting, the bullet nest and barrel can be completely matched, and the barrel diameter is 9mm. Moreover, it adopts the most advanced percussion gun at the time, with a flash hider and a rifled barrel. It is small in size, light in weight, and has nearly perfect functions. It is no longer different from the current revolver.
Later he set up a gun company, but because there was no war, the demand for guns was not large, and the factory closed.
Although the factory closed down, his dream of making guns is still there, so he insisted on doing it all the time, and constantly improving, the better.
Slowly because of the strong love and recommendation of Americans, Colt rebuilt the company again, and finally grew bigger and bigger the company has continued to this day, becoming a century-old gun.
The story about guns canโt be finished for days or nights. Letโs learn about revolvers first.
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