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The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the modern electric motor -driven rotary cannon .
The Gatling gun was the first hand‑driven machine gun, and the first firearm to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts.
A Gatling gun is a hand-driven machine gun that was the first to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was created about 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling, an American inventor. The name “Gatling gun” continues to be applied to some modern weapons.
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A rotary cannon, rotary autocannon, rotary gun or Gatling cannon, is any large-caliber multiple-barreled automatic firearm that uses a Gatling-type rotating barrel assembly to deliver a sustained saturational direct fire at much greater rates of fire than single-barreled autocannons of the same caliber. The loading, firing and ejection ...
Richard Jordan Gatling (born September 12, 1818, Maney’s Neck, North Carolina, U.S.—died February 26, 1903, New York, New York) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, a crank-operated, multibarrel machine gun, which he patented in 1862.
A Gatling gun set up outside Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. By this time Gatlings were integrated into larger army maneuvers and actions. But in the most famous battle of the Indian Wars, the Gatling was strangely absent.
Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.
A Destructive Weapon Meant for Good. Working throughout the summer of 1861, Gatling developed the invention that would carry his name though history: the Gatling gun, a weapon featuring a...
Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), the inventor of the Gatling gun, was, for most of his life, involved with the development of farm equipment.