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  2. Richard Jordan Gatling - Wikipedia

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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 ().

  3. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.

  4. Gatling gun - Wikipedia

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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's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing-reloading sequence.

  5. Richard Gatling - Wikipedia

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  6. List of sociologists - Wikipedia

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    This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  7. List of inventions named after people - Wikipedia

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    A British 1865 Gatling gun Gladstone bag Gramme dynamo Jacquard loom Mausoleum – The Taj Mahal Mills bomb Minié balls Moog synthesiser. Galil – Yisrael Galil; Gallup Poll – George Gallup; Galvanometer, galvanic cell – Luigi Galvani; Garand – John Garand; Gatling gun – Richard Jordan Gatling; Gatso cameras – Maus Gatsonides ...

  8. Multiple-barrel firearm - Wikipedia

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    Richard Gatling later replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. Even after he slowed down the mechanism, the new electric motor-powered Gatling gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, roughly three times the maximum rate of a typical ...

  9. Arthur L. Howard - Wikipedia

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    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. Howard agreed to go to Canada with the two Gatlings.