| Show 11 DR dk GATLING INVENTOR OF FAMOUS GUN DEAD it r V till ak N I 1 I 1 I 1 rl I 1 apt X k N J I 1 I 1 AV 11 fol ell t P t 7 dr richard jordan catling Gatling invent or died suddenly feb 26 at the home of his daughter mrs hugh 0 pente cost at new york city dr gatling was an inventor ol 01 un usual versatility but of course his principal title to fame is the gun that Is known by bis his name from one end of the civilized and uncivilized world to the other he was born in north carolina sept 12 1818 and until 1888 when he established him self and his gun factory at hartford conn he had lived in halt half the large cities of the country As a mere lad he disclosed his faculty for invention he ile assisted his father in designing a machine to sow cotton seed and to thin out the plants in 1844 he re moved to st louis where he invent ed a wheat later he bradu abed from ohio medical college at cincinnati but never practiced ea re moving to indianapolis in 1849 he there became a real estate dealer but had poor success he invented a hemp break and a steam plow both of which failed and in 1861 he con calved the idea of the gun that was in a comparatively short time to give him hlyn a worldwide renown and make him a rich man discredited at home dr catling gatling went abroad in 1867 IS 67 and showed the gun to napoleon III who fired it with his oven hands the emperor of aus tria saw it and was highly pleased with it england adopted it and be fore his patents ran out dr gatling had cleared in royalties from the english factory the gatling gun is now used by armies and navies ev ery where like most inventors of war dimple meats ments dr gatling was a quiet peace able man and one of the strongest opponents of war in the horld a he claimed that less actual harm was done by his gun than by the old in st and he would relate an how the presence of the gat hag ling I 1 h had a d often saed saved life and prevent ed fighting by the very moral force which its frightful destructiveness ex arted on the minds of men |
