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Richard Jordan Gatling
(12 Sep 1818 - 26 Feb 1903)
American inventor , whose Gatling gun (1861) was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate and ease of loading.
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Science Quotes by Richard Jordan Gatling (1)
It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.
— Richard Jordan Gatling
In P. Wahl and D. R. Toppel, The Gatling Gun (1966), 12.
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