Timeline for Could medieval people produce automatic firearms if they had access to the schematics?
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| Sep 22 at 9:16 | answer | added | Russell McMahon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 19:03 | answer | added | Duncan | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 23, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | Marshall Tigerus | As a recommendation, read the 1632 series. It deals with some of these issues, but at a more technologically advanced timeframe. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:10 | answer | added | user2707001 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 10, 2017 at 7:32 | comment | added | Wayne Watson | Have a read of the freeware ebook 'Meddlers in Time' smashwords.com/books/view/6204 A manual on how to advance 9 th century technology through time travel. | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 15:56 | answer | added | Dan W | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 0:54 | comment | added | Joshua | I am led to wonder if the AK-47 with its deliberately loosened tolerances might be possible. You would also need the schematics for all of the tooling though. | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 22:52 | comment | added | Matthew Lock | You might find the Pakistani town of Darra Adam Khel interesting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darra_Adam_Khel They can clone most guns using hand tools | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 17:21 | answer | added | Tyler Durden | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 22, 2015 at 5:37 | answer | added | Peter Cordes | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 20:43 | vote | accept | vsz | ||
| Feb 21, 2015 at 19:29 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | @EricLippert see my comment on Machining below, I think that's what you are referring too. | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | I would like to add (to the many good answers and comments) that technically, it is possible for them to make an automatic weapon from schematics, without industrialization. It just wouldn't work very well, nor for very long. It would almost certainly jam/misfire within seconds. | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 18:53 | answer | added | joojaa | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 18:32 | comment | added | user3082 | @vsz re: your "most trusted knights" comment - I think you'd be better off working with revolvers and rifles. Rifles will give you enough range that the other line can't come close enough to do significant damage, and revolvers will give you more shots before reloading. And if you get swappable chambers (tough to do, but doable), you can have a reload set waiting. | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 18:30 | comment | added | user3082 | @eric Boring machines are also non-trivial. Getting a small hole drilled precisely is fine, drilling at the end of a 12" length (or 2' length) without wobble is a whole nother story. | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 16:45 | answer | added | Sobrique | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 16:04 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | High-precision metalworking is a potential problem. A metalworking lathe is the most basic of the machine tools; once you have a 19th century lathe and the ability to cast metal, you can make just about any other tool that was available in the industrial revolution. But building a lathe requires having at least one long, accurately made threaded rod. Once you have a lathe you can make a second one easily, but building that first lead screw is not trivial in a world without high quality steel dies and taps. | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Are you trying to use these to fight a war, or just to create some artifact which the king keeps near him as a symbol of his power? War doesn't require making one: war requires making many, and that stretches resources quickly | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 13:56 | answer | added | bowlturner | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 11:50 | answer | added | user2448131 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 10:03 | answer | added | Ville Niemi | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 9:54 | answer | added | user3082 | timeline score: 81 | |
| Feb 21, 2015 at 8:56 | history | asked | vsz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |