Great video.. It's fascinating. I don't think most Americans realize how much technology relied upon weapons to advance our other areas in manufacturing. Great video and thanks to Alex for the tour.. Very cool.. Thanks for sharing so much! Regards from the heartland. South Central Indiana. USA Tim

Dick Bolt in MD: I worked on the SPIW project at Spfld Armory Bld 300 in summer of 1963 for the 3-4 months between 3 & 4 yr of WNEC Mechanical Engineering. The Head of Engineering at Spfld Armory was a Ham Radio friend of mine, Art Zaveralla. I did a lot of dumpster Diving while there. I still have photos of the shells fired, not SPIW & SPIW. I also have a few 3D photos by local Charles DeBois Hodges from 1950s that I believe they were taken both in & out of Armory. In color! I am a retired NASA Engr Govie & I worked on the Apollo 11 & 12 moon walk life support backpack at Hamilton Std! I also bowled on the candle pin bowling alley at Armory during my Spfld Tech HS next door in 1953-57 period. Also shot there Armory shooting range for HS Rifle Team. My dad also worked in Mgt at Armory in that period. • Dick Bolt

Interesting video thanks for sharing

I try to take the 5 hour drive at least every 2 or 3 years to visit. I am due for another visit soon. Great history there with cool historical firearm & tooling displays!

The Swedish military firearm expert told me to read about different designs when I wanted to get hold of other guns to study different designs. He should see your video.

Musket refers to loading by the muzzle. Muskets (loading by the muzzle) has had various lengths through out the centuries prior to the technological improvement of loading by breach or magazine (receiver).

I live 2 miles from this.. LOL Grew up in Agawam across the river and when I graduated from STCC I moved to walnut st Springfield MA

BTW. my father, Joseph C Bolt for at the Armory for abt 5 yrs before retiring for the 3rd time at abt 70! He was in Management. I have many documents related to his work there. Abt 1960s . Dick Bolt

Can someone please explain to me, how the sled (or slide, I'm not quite familiar with the correct term), which holds the cutting tool and other wheel, automatically reverses ? The lead screw in the video always turns in only one direction, thus it can't be a reciprocating one. So how does it work ?

Why can no one ever pronounce John Garand's name properly? It's pronounced Gair-end, not Guh-rand

4:10. A museum guide doesn’t even know the difference between a rifle and a musket. A rifle has rifleing in the barrel. It’s not length

4:10 - "What is the difference between a rifle and a musket?" "Ah, Pretty much length." Wrong answer. The difference has NOTHING to do with the length. A rifle must have spiraled groves cut on the inside of the barrel. These groves are called rifling. Their purpose is to spin the projectile to increase its ballistic stability. Rifles are typically shoulder fired long guns. Many of the famous Kentucky Rifles had barrel lengths that were as long as the typical musket barrels of the time. A musket must have a smooth-bored barrel. It also must be a muzzle-loaded, shoulder-fired, long gun. A rifle musket is a musket that was originally manufactured with a smoothbore barrel but later modified by rifling the barrel. Strictly speaking, the term is not accurate. Once a smooth-bored musket barrel is modified with rifling, it is no longer a musket. It is a rifle. The term was used to identify those muskets that had been modified with rifling. A carbine is a long gun firearm that has a shorter barrel than either a rifle or musket. Many carbines are shortened versions of full-length rifles that are chambered for the same ammunition. Other carbines are chambered with lower-powered ammunition such as pistol ammunition.

i see springfield or garand i clic

Armoury practises the begining of the line. Henry Ford copied it for producing his cars. It was those armouring practices that made the USA win the second ww2.