Originally created to reduce the size of armies, and therefore deaths from battle, this gun led to the creation of the most deadly weapons of today.In 1861 Dr. Richard Gatling created the first Gatling gun. To use it, a person had to load and crank the barrels, which would then fire ...
The Gatling gun was the first easily usable, and reliable machine gun to be designed and put into use; and it got its first taste of action during the Civil War. What is truly amazing is the fact that the basic design of the Gatling gun is still used in modern military forces. So wh...
In an age of slow-loading rifles, the Gatling offered unprecedented firepower. Why does the world still know the name of gun that's been obsolete for 100 years?
1. a. A weapon consisting essentially of a metal tube (massive enough to require to be mounted on a carriage or a fixed substructure) from which heavy missiles are thrown by the force of gunpowder, or (in later use) by explosive force of any kind; a piece of ordnance, cannon, ‘...