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Are there any /k/ historians that can tell me how this thing worked?
I've seen it a lot, but I never understood how it could fire so many rounds before needing to be recharged.
It was invented before the steam engine, and I think even before rubber was a thing, so how did they seal it and how did they pump the pressure up so high? How long could a charge last before the air seeped out of the pressure container?
Like I didn't think a handheld pump that could make pressures high enough for this to be effective, sans rubber, sans modern precision manufacturing, could even be made, so this thing fascinates me