1. Jack DePaolis and Bobby Mcdonald

2. Early Guns: Matchlock
 The matchlock was the first firearm ever invented.
 The matchlock was invented in the mid 15th
century.
 The first illustration of the matchlock was in 1475 in
Austria.
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3. How the Matchlock Works
 When you pull the trigger, the
burning end of the match is pressed
into the priming powder, shooting the
gun.
 Pros: First gun ever introduced.
 Cons: Wick was easily extinguished
by rain. Dangerous around
gunpowder. Wick burns out
eventually. Slow reload.

4. Early Guns: Wheel Lock
•The Wheel Lock first appeared in 1517.
•It was an updated version of the Matchlock.
•It was invented in Germany.
•Leonardo da Vinci drew diagrams of a similar
device.
http://www.silcom.com/~vikman/isles/scriptorium/firearm/wheel.html

5. How the Wheel Lock Works.
•The wheel lock works much like a cigarette
lighter. A spring, connected to the steel wheel, is
wound by a crank. Pulling the trigger releases the
spring, spinning the wheel against a flint. Sparks
fall onto the priming, lighting the powder.
•Pros: More reliable and less dangerous than the
Matchlock.
•Cons: Slow reload. Heavy. Mechanism breaks
down. Parts wear out. Hand winding the spring
became tiresome.

6. Early Guns: Flint-Lock
 The Flint-Lock was
invented in London in the
early seventeenth century.
 Ezekiel Baker from London
invented the shotgun,
which was an example of a
Flint-Lock.
 Some Flint-Locks had
rifling, which is a swirled
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7. How the Flint-Lock Works
 When the Flint-Lock’s trigger is released,
the tension of the spring’s tension causes
the flint to fly forward. The flint strikes a
steel object, giving off sparks into a pan of
gun powder to begin the ignition.
 Pros: Rifling introduced, You can cock it
like some of today’s pistols.
 Cons: flint and springs wear out or break,
slow reload and number of shots limited to
number of barrels.

8. Cartridges and Magazines
 The Breech Loading Percussion Paper
Cartridge combined paper cartridges
and percussion caps. They were
introduced in the mid-nineteenth
century.
 Also invented at the same time were
Breech Loading Percussion Metallic
Cartridges.

9. Cartridges and Magazines
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:9mm_p
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10. Cartridge and Magazine Guns
 A cartridge gun is a single shot gun.
 Cartridge guns are still used today.
 Magazine guns use a magazine full of
bullets, which inserts a new bullet after
the previous one has been fired.

11. Cartridge and Magazine Guns
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12. Semi-Automatic Guns
 A semi-automatic gun is able to fire
each time you pull the trigger without
having to cock it.
 A famous example of a semi-automatic
gun is the M1 carbine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Garand.jpg

13. Automatic Guns
 An automatic gun allows you to fire
continuously when you hold the trigger
down.
 The gun will keep firing until it needs to
be reloaded.
 The first automatic gun was invented in
1862 by American Richard Gatling.

14. Automatic Guns
 The automatic didn’t become widely
used until the Prohibition Era, when the
Thompson 1928A1 was invented.
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15. Bibliography
 Evolution of firearms. (1998). Retrieved from
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 Evolution of firearms. (2010, September 11).
Retrieved from
http://www.nps.gov/spar/historyculture/evolution-of-
firearms.htm
 History of firearms. (2010, September 10). Retrieved
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firearms
 Pirates of the carribean. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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