1850's
He invented the first successful machine gun called the Gatling Gun
The Gatling gun was designed in 1861 and patented in 1862
The gatling gun was invented by Richard Gatling in 1861 (it was a common weapon in the American civil war, i must add).
The first was the gatling gun invented in 1862
the first rapid fire gun was the hand crannked gatling gun used in the civil war but the maxim was the first true machine gun which was developed not long after the gatling
The inventor of the Gatling gun was Richard Jordan Gatling. The machine gun- like weapon was named after the inventor. He invented it in 1862.
The Gatling Gun followed a long tradition of devices named after the person who invented / designed it.
A Gatling gun that needed a crew of four to man it.
the gatling gun was used for taking out large troups of enemies
It didn't replace any gun, it was the first rapid fire weapon to be made.
RICHARD GATLING in 1862
Richard Gatling invented the Gatling Gun in 1861. The first self-loading rapid fire gun was the first modern automatic weapon. Sir Hiram Maxim developed the first self-powered or recoil powered automatic gun in 1885 with the Maxim Gun.