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Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903)

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Richard Gatling spent most of his career trying to sell the U.S. Army a weapon they'd been burned on before — and that uphill battle is worth understanding if you want to know why good ideas sometimes die in procurement hell before they ever reach the field. A gun efficient enough that one man could do the battle duty of a hundred would reduce the size of armies required, and fewer soldiers in the field meant fewer men dying of disease. Take that reasoning however you want, but the mechanic...

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Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903)

Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor from rural North Carolina who, in 1862, received U.S. Patent No. 36,836 for a "Revolving Battery-Gun" — the weapon the world came to know simply as the Gatling g

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