Gatling gun

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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 Civil 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 Belgian 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.

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  • Allgemeine Informationen
    • GTIN 09786130299279
    • Genre Technik
    • Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
    • Sprache Englisch
    • Anzahl Seiten 204
    • Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
    • Größe H220mm x B150mm x T12mm
    • Jahr 2010
    • EAN 9786130299279
    • Format Fachbuch
    • ISBN 978-613-0-29927-9
    • Titel Gatling gun
    • Untertitel Machine gun, Union Army, Union (American Civil War), American Civil War, Battle of San Juan Hill, Spanish-American War, Mitrailleuse, Belgian Land Component
    • Gewicht 320g

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