Richard Jordan Gatling

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Richard Jordan Gatling was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the Gatling gun, one of the first successful rapid-fire weapons.

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instanceOf American inventor
human
inventor
associatedWithEvent American Civil War
associatedWithTechnology rapid-fire weapons
birthDate 1818-09-12
birthPlace Hertford County, North Carolina, United States
burialPlace Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1903-02-26
designed hand-cranked multi-barrel machine gun
educatedAt Ohio Medical College
era 19th century
familyName Gatling
linked to: Cannon
fieldOfWork agricultural machinery
firearms design
gender male
givenName Richard
hasAcademicDegree medical degree
hasPartInBiography development and refinement of the Gatling gun after 1862
transition from medicine to full-time inventing
work on agricultural equipment before firearms inventions
hasPatentInCountry France
United Kingdom
United States of America
influenced later automatic weapons design
inspiredBy American Civil War
invention Gatling gun
linked to: Gatling guns

improvements to firearms mechanisms
rice sowing machine
seed planter
steam plow
knownFor inventing the Gatling gun
languageSpoken English
legacy pioneer of machine gun technology
middleName Jordan
name Richard Jordan Gatling
nationality American
notableWork Gatling gun
linked to: Gatling guns
occupation inventor
patent Gatling gun patent of 1862
residence Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
New York City, New York, United States
linked to: New York City
statedGoalOfInvention reduce the size of armies and the number of deaths in war

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Gatling gun inventor Richard Jordan Gatling
subject linked to: Gatling guns
Gatling gun patentHolder Richard Jordan Gatling
subject linked to: Gatling guns
Gatling gun namedAfter Richard Jordan Gatling
subject linked to: Gatling guns
Richard Jordan Gatling name Richard Jordan Gatling