![]() The Hotchkiss cannon would become quite popular, with major purchases by the French and American navies as well as many other nations. The gun looks like a Gatling gun at first glance, but its mechanical operation is quite different. His revolving cannon was sized for 1-pound (450g) 37mm explosive shells (although he would also produce armor piercing and canister ammunition). ![]() ![]() So being the inventive sort, he went ahead and designed just such a gun. In his opinion, an effective rapid-fire weapon needed to fire explosive projectiles to have a real effect at extended range (unlike the mitrailleuse which fired simple rifle bullets). He experienced the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and understood the failure of the French Mitrailleuse multi-barrel volley guns. This Hotchkiss and its accessories are lot #1116 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction:īenjamin Hotchkiss was an American artillery designer who moved to Paris in 1867 in hopes of building a business for his improvements in artillery shells.
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