The rimfire cartridge was introduced the same year, and the hammer looks like it was designed for striking a rim. Also, the caps (or cap mounts) are usually more obvious, and I don’t see them here.
The article suggests that this was the only one made, and that it never went into production. And I an probably misinterpreting it, but the article includes text that suggests that the individual cylinders could be swapped out, which is intriguing. With a 2-man team, you could just keep firing this continually as someone else swapped out fired cylinders as they went around. Utterly absurd… except as an emplaced rifle it’d be slightly less silly, especially if the cylinders were swappable.
Anyway, probably rimfire? The timing works, barely.
The rimfire cartridge was introduced the same year, and the hammer looks like it was designed for striking a rim. Also, the caps (or cap mounts) are usually more obvious, and I don’t see them here.
The article suggests that this was the only one made, and that it never went into production. And I an probably misinterpreting it, but the article includes text that suggests that the individual cylinders could be swapped out, which is intriguing. With a 2-man team, you could just keep firing this continually as someone else swapped out fired cylinders as they went around. Utterly absurd… except as an emplaced rifle it’d be slightly less silly, especially if the cylinders were swappable.
Anyway, probably rimfire? The timing works, barely.