A Gatling Guns History.
This is an gatling gun made in the 1876.
The Gatling gun (1861) is one of the most well known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner to the modern Machine gun. Its first combat usage, and the battlefield role it is most well-known for, was its use by the Union Forces during the American Cival War in the 1860s. Later it was also famously used in the assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
Developed following the 1851 invention of the mitrailleuse by the Belgain Army the Gatling gun was originally designed by the American inventor Dr.Richard J.Gatling in 1861 and patented in 1862.He wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease.
Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required a person to crank it; therefore it was not a true automatic weapon. The Maxim gun, invented in 1884, was the first true automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon. Nonetheless, the Gatling gun represented a huge leap in firearm technology. Prior to the Gatling gun, the only rapid-fire firearms available to militaries were mass-firing volley weapons as the mitrailleuse or grapeshot (as fired from cannons), which all operated on a similar principle to shotguns.
The impact is that the Gatling Gun changed the world by having a rapid firer in the wars,the Mini Gun is a mini dissine of thee Gatling Gun.The gatling Gun is in every place.Now there are Gatling gun used in different styles,like there are gatling gun in planes,ships,helicopter and more.The two picture pictures on top is two gatling gun in a plane,and a ship.
Richard Jordan Gatling
