LEONARDO da Vinci
(b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)

Multi Barrel Gun

1480-82
Drawing
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

From the Codex Atlanticus.

This was Leonardo's equivalent of the machine gun. All of the guns are muzzle-loading, which would limit the rate of fire.




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