Gatling earned his first patent in November 1862, for the "Improvement in revolving battery-guns," his idea for reducing the number of men needed to fight the American Civil War.

During the 1862 Civil War, Indianapolis was home to the invention of the Gatling gun - the first modern, reliable machine gun. Designed by Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, it has many uses. The Terre Haute ...

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 ...

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 crank ...

Gatling Gun. Machine Guns; Automatic Weapons Revolutionized Colonial Warfare ... Gatling patented his rapid-firing gun in 1862 and experimented with electric power 30 years later.

Richard Gatling, who grew up in Hertford County, patented his Gatling gun in 1862 as the country was in the midst of the Civil War, hoping to save lives by reducing the number of people needed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The crank-operated, multi-barrel machine gun, devised in about 1862 by physician and inventor Richard Jordan Gatling, was one of the many Americana items featured in the Collector's Passion ...