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Name: Richard Jordan Gatling
Birth Date: September 12, 1818
Death Date: February 26, 1903
Place of Birth: Hertford County, North Carolina, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: inventor, merchant

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Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), American inventor, became famous for designing multiple-firing guns. Richard Gatling was born on a large plantation in Hertford County, N.C., on Sept. 12, 1818. With his father he perfected machines to sow cotton and...
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Born in Hertford County, North Carolina, Gatling showed signs of creativity even as a youngster. He helped his father, a plantation owner and inventor, develop machines for sowing and thinning cotton. In 1839 Gatling invented a screw propeller for...


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1818-1903 American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, a crank-operated rapid-fire machine gun that he patented in 1862. Working at the outbreak of the Civil War, Gatling believed a gun that could quickly fire large numbers of...
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Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, the first successful machine gun. The son of farmer and inventor Jordan Gatling, Gatling was born in...


 

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