50 caliber machine gun had been rendered obsolete by jet ... re-introducing the multi-barreled rotary weapon invented by Richard J. Gatling in the 1880s. Initial tests proved promising as a ...

A gun-design novice but experienced curtain ... design to create the still-used M61 Vulcan rotary cannon. The man: Richard Gatling was born in September 1818 in North Carolina.

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first ...

Jan. 9, 1905: A Gatling gun arrives in Lexington to protect the tobacco district from Night Riders, a militant, terrorist group of tobacco farmers who resisted the practices of the American ...

Richard Jordan Gatling was living in Indianapolis when the Civil War began. He developed the Gatling Gun, an early machine ...