Record #:

6060

Author(s):

Dean, Jim

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 46 Issue 2, Feb 1982, punnumbered, il, por

Subject(s):

Gatling, Richard Jordan, 1818-1903; Gatling gun