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 ...

As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades ...

Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time.Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical.Someone still had to ...

The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire, spring-loaded, hand-cranked weapons. A clip of bullets feeds a rotating wheel of barrels and at one time fired 200 to 400 rounds per minute.

The “Ager Gun” was designed by Wilson Ager and was termed the “Ager’s Coffee Mill Gun.” It is sometimes mistaken for the much more famous Gatling gun.

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A rare Civil War 1875 Gatling gun sold at auction for $93,000 to a private East Coast collector at Wednesday's Nye & Company's Americana auction.

It is based on the Gatling principle, which permits a high rate of fire while also reducing heat and barrel erosion.The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun ...

Gatling guns have been cool ever since Jesse "The Body" Ventura carried one around the jungle in Predator. Give a Gatling gun legs, and apparently you've got yourself a great video game. Gatling ...

The original Gatling gun, invented just before the Civil War, was one of the first guns that could fire rapidly: its six barrels were rotated by a hand crank and each fired when they reached the ...

Julia Keller talked about her book [Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It] (Viking; May 29, 2008) with Vernon Burton. [Mr.