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Gatling Gun. The precursor of the modern machine gun was invented in 1862 by Richard J. Gatling. Born in North Carolina, Gatling had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he invented and manufactured agricultural machines. Previous attempts at designing an automatically reloading multishot gun were stymied by the loading and ignition techniques of the mid‐nineteenth century: bullet and gunpowder had to be loaded separately, and the powder ignited via an external percussion cap. The introduction of metal‐jacketed cartridges containing a percussive, explosive charge and a bullet in a single unit enabled Gatling to invent a self‐loading primitive machine gun.
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1818 1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun, was born in Hertford County in 1818. — The Tryon Daily Bulletin of Tryon, NC claims to be the world's smallest daily newspaper. — There are 43 mountain peaks in North Carolina that exceed 6000 feet in ...
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ruralhall.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC ...1861 1861 - In 1861, Doctor Richard Gatling patented the Gatling Gun, a six-barreled weapon capable of firing a (then) phenomenal 200 rounds per minute. The Gatling gun was a hand-driven, crank-operated, multi-barrel, machine gun. The first machine gun with reliable loading ...
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From Gatling Gun - History of the Gatling Gun - Related web pages
inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a ...1862 Aug 15, 1862 - A trial of the newly-invented arm known as the "Gatling Gun," took place yesterday afternoon, on Michigan Avenue, near Congress street, in the presence of numerous spectators, all of whom, after witnessing the operations of this beautiful piece of ordnance, seemed disposed to pronounce ...
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pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access ...1884 Apr 5, 1884 - Wonderful improvements have recently been made in the Gatling gun. and Dr. Gatling, the inventor, has been here for some days, Illustrating them to the leading men of the War Department. He has shown that the gun can now fire on an average 1200 shots per minute continuously, ...
From THE GATLING GUN. - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access ...1885 May 18, 1885 - Arthur L. Howard, whose successful handling of the Gatling gun platoon in the Northwest has won him sudden fame, is a man of whom very ... When the Gatling guns were ordered for service in the Northwest, Dr. RJ Gatling looked for a man acquainted with guns who could handle them in a ...
From THE MAN WITH THE GATLING GUN. - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...1893 Jul 17, 1893 - The disbandment of Gatling Gun Company A the famous Veteran Zouaves of this city, by the State military authorities has taken most of the ... It is a matter of history how Mr. Dunn, OB Chairman of the Law Committee, started the Opunollmanlo ' Investigation into the affairs of the ...
From … ; WHY THE FAMOUS GATLING-GUN COMPANY WAS DISBANDED. … - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...1894 Oct 20, 1894 - Howard of Gatling-gun fame, who owas believed to have lost his life in the recent storm on the St. Lawrence, is safe. His daughter has received a telegram from her brother, WA Howard, dated New-Haven, Conn., saying that he had received .word from Halifax that nothing had happened. ...
From "Gatling Gun" Howard Safe. - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...1898 Feb 25, 1898 - Dr. RJ Gatling, the inventor of the gun which bears his name, has just arrived in Cleveland to conduct the finishing touches to the big gun being ... In an interview Dr. Gatling said:. " I .-h.]l make every endeavor to the work upon the gun, in view of the present situation- .lthough ...
From HURRYING A GATLING GUN.; The Inventor Superintending the Finishing … - Related web pages
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...1991 Aug 1, 1991 - I enjoy unusual and old things and the Gatling is an old thing and certainly unusual." But more to the point, his fondness for the gun is mainly for its historical value. "I like to collect things, especially bizarre things, not for their intrinsic value, but to own a piece of history ...
From Gun Satisfies His Historical Aim - Related web pages
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61006234 ...2003 Feb 20, 2003 - There is the tribute to prisoners of war, the back room that bears the museum's largest items (from a Gatling gun to a WWI stretcher cart to ... Overview: History is so much a part of Virginia, and war so much a part of our history, that it sometimes seems that wars are just part of a ...
From VIRGINIA, AMERICAN HISTORY TRIP WAR MUSEUM SHARE … - Related web pages
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