Record #:

8286

Author(s):

Stephenson, E. Frank

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 46 Issue 1, Fall 2006, p28-30, il, por

Subject(s):

Gatling, Richard Jordan, 1818-1903; Gatling gun