Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903)

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