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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.
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Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (1840–1916) US inventor of the Maxim machine gun (1883). His other inventions include a smokeless powder and a delayed-action fuse.
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In 1861, the U.S. Army was offered its first machine gun: Wilson Ager's single‐barrel, hand‐cranked weapon, often called the “coffee mill” gun due to its resemblance to a coffee grinder.
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During the American Civil War, and later used in the Spanish-American War, but was supplanted by advanced weaponry soon after.
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Hiram Maxim invented the first Machine Gun.
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Richard Gatling invented the first Gatling Gun.
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The Gatling gun was the first firearm to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts.
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Machine Guns are repeating firearms that when triggered will load and fire automatically until their ammunition is exhausted.
