Tag: military history

Gatling Gun: The first Machine Gun

9 May, 2008 (10:40) | East Carolina Manuscript Collection, photographs | By: Nanette Hardison

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the E. Frank Stephenson, Jr., Collection, 1736-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #692 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This remarkable invention, which was a revolving battery gun with a firing capacity of 250 rounds per minute invented in 1865, was the creation of a Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling who was born on [...]