Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical. Someone still had to crank it by hand make the gun fire.

Why was the Gatling gun designed? Developed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling, the Gatling gun was first used in the American Revolution. The patent was issued on November 4, 1862, in ...

The Gatling, a predecessor of the modern machine gun, was first used by Union soldiers during the Civil War ...

A reproduction Gatling gun drew a crowd at Historic Hanna’s Town on Sunday, July 30, during the Westmoreland Historical Society’s Civil War encampment and battle reenactment.

Most people believe that the first rapid-fire gun was the Gatling gun, which was invented in 1862 by Richard Gatling and used in the Civil War to deliver devastating losses, the likes of which no ...

BLOOMFIELD — History buffs and gun collectors will have a rare opportunity to bid on a Gatling gun, the forerunner of the modern machine gun and rotary cannon, invented during the American Civil ...

Locating a Gatling gun isn't simple, and finding one in working condition is even more challenging. The world's inaugural rapid-firing multiple-barrel machine gun, devised by an American doctor in ...

A: In 1946, US army ordnance engineers dusted down the Gatling principle to create the M61 series Vulcan Gatling gun. It arms many supersonic fighters, including the F-14 and the F-111.

Items of particular interest include an 1877 Bulldog .45-70 Gatling battery gun; an 1862 full-size .50 Gatling gun; an 1851 Colt .36 revolver that belonged to Confederate States Army Gen. John ...

That honour goes to his countryman Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), who invented and, in 1862, patented the multi-barrel, crank-operated machine gun that first saw service in the American Civil ...

US Army initially shunned inventor Richard Jordan Gatling’s rapid-fire gun THE top brass of the Union Army watched an amazing demonstration of a rapid fire gun in 1862. Invented by Richard ...