Richard Jordan Gatling and the Gatling gun
- Title
- Richard Jordan Gatling and the Gatling gun
- Description
- One image of Richard Jordan Gatling and three images of the Gatling gun from the book Gatling : a photographic remembrance by E. Frank Stephenson, Jr. (Meherrin River Press, [1993]). Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, native of Hertford County, N.C., invented the Gatling gun in 1865. An inventor of mostly agricultural devices, Gatling conceived the idea of making a machine gun that would largely remove the necessity of large armies in the hope of putting an end to war.
- Date
- 1865-1993
- Original Format
- photographs
- Extent
- 43cm x 54cm
- Local Identifier
- 0692-s3-ss2-b15-fh
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- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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