It is a type of muzzle loader. To fire it, a smoldering bit of string (the slow match) is pressed onto the priming pan.
There were many.
the wheel lock rifle, although very expensive and used mostly by aristocracy to go hunting. the actual battlefield replacement of the matchlock was the flintlock rifle around the period c.1660-c.1700
The Matchlock Gun was created in 1941.
If you mean the US Civil war, matchlock guns were NOT used. They had long been replaced by newer designs. The standard rifle at the start of the war was a caplock. By the end of the war, breech loading firearms using metallic cartridges were in use.
The ISBN of The Matchlock Gun is 0-698-11680-1.
That would be a pretty safe bet. The matchlock musket was replaced with the flintlock, which was replaced by the cartridge rifle, replaced by the repeating rifle, replaced with the semi auto rifle, and so on. But the next major change is likely to be in the type of ammunition used.
Matchlock rifle, Brown Bess musket, Kentucky rifle, Springfield rifled musket, Dreyse 'Needle Gun', Mauser rifle, Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle, Stg. 44/MP43, Maxim machine gun, MG34 and MG42, FN FAL, FN MAG, AK-47 and AKM.
By hand.
The Chinese did in 1368.
A type of a gun.
When the man asked his friend for a gun to commit suicide, he gave him a matchlock so he could have time to call the police.
Wheel lock