The Serpentine - Medieval Gun Animation 

Nothing changes. Similiary with farming equipment. You can buy the most fancy and expensive plow for your tractor, but one day you *WILL* put a big rock or a slab of concrete on it, to weight it up.

A fat wife is even better, because she will get on the machine herself

They would break do to unsuitable materials.

Breech loaded guns were invented as early as the 14th century, according to Wikipedia and other sources.

@@mediumaevumand semi automatic muskets by the 17th!

Yeah, but they did have a tendency to explode

@@CoolKid-qk7tl well there was a gun that forgotten weapons showed off several years ago that was a wheel lock hunting musket wich had a breach AND proto cartridges.

@@CoolKid-qk7tl If I remember correctly, soldiers who were operating mortars and cannons had pretty high salaries. Maybe becuse they were often killed or mutilated by failing equipment.

Breach loading was known since the 14th century, the problem was making it with consistent quality steel and advanced steel work. Let's say most of those early cannons tended to shatter and transform their crews into grown brief with relative frequency... To ensure that this happened less they would try to make them thicker, it would be impractical to make a handgun that would be reasonably safe with a breach loading system at that time That's why muzzleloaders were favored until the the arrival of the industrial revolution

You can have faster reload with breach-loader or higher pressure and heavier loads for much more firepower. When the target is a stone wall 2-3 meters thick - the choice is obvious

Your brain will explode when you find out the first car was actually electric. This happens with tech through out history: we start at where we'd like to be, but can't so we work around it until we can.

@@MrVohveli Well, those early electric cars weren't so bad for the time. Originally, we were using electrically-powered trolley cars, steam trains for long distance travel, and so forth. An electric car was not designed for cross-country efficiency, it was mostly just for getting around town. I have a feeling that if we had stuck to electric cars instead of Internal Combustion Engines, we would probably have had good, affordable long-range electric cars a LONG time ago.

Idk about recoil but if I had to guess the gunpowder is inside that little back part they took out.

And some voice over. I plan on making a video some day about medieval weapons. With voice over and music :). Stay tuned.

@@mediumaevum I mean the wild west meme music

The breech at the end was loaded with powder as the shot was loaded. It basically works like a primative howitzer.