The Gatling gun (1861) was one of the most well known rapid-fire weapons to be used in the 1860s by the Union forces of the Civil War, following the 1851 invention of the mitrailleuse by the Belgian Army. Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required human power to crank it; as such it was not a true automatic weapon. Each barrel fired a single shot as it reached a certain point in the cycle after which it ejected the spent cartridge, loaded a new round, and in the process, cooled down somewhat. This configuration allowed higher rates of fire without the problem of an overheating single barrel. Some time later, Gatling-type weapons were invented that diverted a fraction of gas from the chamber to turn the barrels. Later still, electric motors supplied external power. The original Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented in 1862.[1] He wrote that he made it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease.
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Oh, what a happy little question! Larry Gatlin, the country music singer, is not related to Richard Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling gun. It's just a coincidence they share the same last name, like two trees standing tall in the same forest but not from the same seed. Isn't that just wonderful?
Dr. Richard J. Gatling. See link for history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun
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