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While being most known for inventing the Gatling gun, Gatling invented and patented a number of other inventions.His inventions include a screw propeller and a wheat drill (a planting device) in 1839, a hemp break machine in 1850, a steam plow (steam tractor) in 1857, the Gatling gun in 1861, a marine steam ram in 1862, and a motor-driven plow ().
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's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing-reloading sequence.
It was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented in 1862. [2] Hand cranked and hopper fed, it could fire at a rate of 200 rounds per minute. The Gatling gun was a field weapon, first used in warfare during the American Civil War and subsequently by European and Russian armies.
Richard J. Gatling (1818–1903), ... U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in ... Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790–1878 ...
The Gatling gun, invented and patented in 1861 by Richard Gatling during the American Civil War, was the earliest precursor to a machine gun in the sense that it had all of the underlying features of reliable loading as well as the ability to fire sustained multiple bursts of rounds, the only drawback being, it had to be manually operated and ...
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Dr. Richard J. Gatling invents the Gatling gun. [12] Capt. Robert P. Parrott is granted a United States patent for the Parrott rifle, a field artillery weapon. [13] James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the principle of permanent three-colour photography. [14]
Dr. Richard J. Gatling , the gun's inventor, began searching for a man who was an expert in the use of the Gatling, and selected Lieutenant Howard. Howard agreed to go to Canada with the two Gatlings.