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Dr. Richard Gordon Gatling of Maney's Neck in Hertford County was born September 12, 1818. In 1835, he invented a screw propeller for warships, but another inventor, John Ericsson, beat him to the U.S. Patent Office by a few days. Gatling was world-famous for his agricultural inventions by the middle of the 19th-century. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he began work on a weapon that would bring him lasting fame -- the Gatling Gun.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 46 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
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Richard Gordon Gatling was born in a log cabin at Maney's Neck in Hertford County on September 12, 1818. By the middle of the 19th-century, he was world-famous for his agricultural inventions. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he began work on a weapon that would bring him lasting fame -- the Gatling Gun, patented on November 4, 1862. Gatling felt that by building a weapon that was so destructive of human life, it would prevent wars.
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Dr. Richard Gordon Gatling of Maney's Neck in Hertford County was born September 12, 1818. Gatling was world-famous for his agricultural inventions, and after the outbreak of the Civil War, he began work on a weapon that would bring him lasting fame - the Gatling Gun.
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Richard Gatling was born in near Murfreesboro in Hertford County. In 1839 he perfected a workable screw propeller only to learn that John Ericsson was granted a patent for the same invention a few months earlier. It was his invention of the machine gun, known as the Gatling gun, that revolutionized warfare and spread his name worldwide.
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12068
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North Carolina native, Richard Jordan Gatling, invented the Gatling gun in 1862. A series of gun barrels on a revolving shaft, capable of firing 350 rounds per minute, the Gatling gun was first used in the Battle of the James River, 1863.
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Born in Hertford County, Richard Gatling became internationally known for his inventions, the outstanding one being the famous gun which bears his name.
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Richard Jordan Gatling, born in Herford County, invented one of the most deadly weapons of warfare in history--the machine gun. Despite the success of his invention, he remained sickened with the methods of warfare that included his gun, and he attempted to be known for other inventions such as a steam plow.
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Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun, a revolutionary weapon first used during the Civil War. The author discusses Gatling's family history, his early life in Hertford County, and his other entrepreneurial endeavors before he created the Gatling gun. The original patent and schematics of the Gatling gun are included in the article.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 1, Jan 1964,
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The Battle of the Little Big Horn fought between George Custer's 7th Cavalry and an alliance of Native Americans, primarily Sioux and Cheyenne, under the command of Sitting Bull, is perhaps the best-remembered of the American-Native American wars. Four North Carolinians were there--Harvey A. Fox, Jonathan Robers, John Thadus, and Daniel Alexander Kanipe. Thadus was killed at the battle; Robers was with Major Reno's command; Fox was on detached service; and Kanipe has the distinction of carrying the next-to-last message from Custer. A North Carolinian's invention, which could have turned the tide of battle and which Custer did not take with him from the fort, was Richard Gatling's Gatling Gun.
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