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1718: The first machine gun was patented by London lawyer James Puckle who, as a keen fisherman, intended to use it at sea.

1718: The first machine gun was patented by London lawyer James Puckle, with a claimed rate of fire of nine rounds per minute.

1718 The world's first machine gun is patented by English inventor James Puckle.

1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's first machine gun

In 1718 James Puckle had invented the Defence Gun, capable of firing 63 shots in seven minutes.

Puckle, a savvy working-class woman, recounts a story of giving a speech at an anti-suffrage meeting, which she has mistaken for a mother's meeting she is due to attend.

Steven Ross, Stirling, said: "Good to see referees again giving Celtic breaks by not awarding a blatant penalty to Caley Thistle" Norman Puckle, London, said: "I keep reading criticism of Scottish referees but they aren't great in England either.

Before settling on "Granger," Rowling considered making Hermione's last name "Puckle."

The Ribauldequin, an early volley gun, was first fielded in 1339 and the revolver-like Puckle Gun in 1718.

Pickle or puckle, of course, means the opposite of mickle or muckle - a little of something.

The attorneys for one of the suspects are Puckle, Puckle and Nunnery.

(22) One early design was the eleven-round "Defence Gun," patented in 1718 by lawyer and inventor James Puckle. (23) It used eleven preloaded cylinders; each pull of the trigger fired one cylinder.