Show LIVES WEAPON inventor will long be remembered as originator of 07 fanous fa nou gatling G e gun the barst of 0 those terrible engines of warfare known as the gatlin gatling gun was invented in 1862 by richard jo jordan gatling who as born bom in north carolina gatling the son of 0 a ri rich h planter was well educated and early devoted himself to flen work a and nd mechanical its ilia first firs device was a screw pr peller for steamships on which on oa applying for a patent he found himself anticipated by ericsson next he contrived a ma celue for planting wheat and other grain in drills which proved highly successful having used his inventive genius in such a manner as to assist in feeding and preserving humanity he be next neit sel aei 1 about the task of contriving a machine machina tir mr hilling his fellows there were crude rapid fire guns in use when gatling turned his attention to the subject but they were of little practical value the gatling galling gun soon led to a revolutionizing of artillery and until Ms death the inventor devoted his time lima almost exclusively to perfecting and manufacturing that formidable weapon which has been adopted by all the armies arbiea of the world tens of thousands of graves now attest to the deadly accuracy of the slaying machine invented by gutling |