Gatling gun - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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 .
Gatling gun | History, Description, & Facts | Britannica
WEBGatling gun, hand-driven machine gun, the first to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was invented about 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling during the American Civil War.
Gatling Gun ‑ Date, Inventor & Usage - HISTORY
WEBMar 4, 2010 · By the time World War I broke out, the Gatling gun had been pushed aside in favor of the first completely automatic machine gun, invented by Maine-born Hiram Stevens Maxim in England in the...
Shooting USA: History's Guns: The Gatling Gun - YouTube
WEBNov 13, 2022 · Shooting USA airs every Wednesday on Outdoor Channel.For more information, head to http://www.shootingusa.comFor full length current episodes: https://vimeo....
Richard Jordan Gatling and His Gun - We're History
WEBNov 5, 2015 · In the 1870s and 1880s, the Ashanti and Zulu warriors who fought against British colonizing forces fell by the hundreds to Gatling’s invention. From Egypt to the Cape Colony and from the Sudan to Nigeria, the Gatling gun earned its reputation as the lethal vanguard of British imperialism.
The Introduction of the Gatling Gun — And How It Changed …
WEBAug 22, 2021 · The first Gatling gun — or rather, the first 12 Gatling guns — were used during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, between June 1864 and April 1865. Eight more were fitted on gunboats, but the U.S. Army didn’t start utilizing them until 1866, after they were demonstrated to be effective in combat.
Richard Jordan Gatling | Civil War, Machine Gun, Inventor
WEBSep 8, 2024 · 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.
The History of the Gatling Gun - Popular Mechanics
WEBAug 31, 2020 · Working throughout the summer of 1861, Gatling developed the invention that would carry his name though history: the Gatling gun, a weapon featuring a barrel that was 2.21 feet long and...
WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? - BBC Teach
WEBWhen, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first reliable hand-cranked machine-guns – his humanitarian vision was based on a desire to end wars.
The Mass Production of Death: Richard Jordan Gatling Invents the ...
WEBRichard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), the inventor of the Gatling gun, was, for most of his life, involved with the development of farm equipment. The son of a North Carolina plantation owner, Gatling was living in Cincinnati during the outbreak of the war, and came up with the idea for his weapon, according to legend, while watching the wheel of ...
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