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Gatling gun
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1860s multi-barrel rapid-fire gun of Richard Gatling, or its 1880s-1890s variants
Key facts
- Type
- Rapid-fire gun, hand-cranked machine gun
- Place of origin
- United States
- In service
- 1862–1911
- Used by
- See Users
- Designer
- Richard Jordan Gatling
- Manufacturer
- Eagle Iron Works, Cooper Firearms Manufacturing Company, Colt Manufacturing Company , American Ordnance Company
- Produced
- 1862–1903
- Mass
- 170 lb (77.2 kg)
- Length
- 42.5 in (1,079 mm)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- multiple-barrel firearm
- Named after
- Richard Jordan Gatling
- Country of origin
- United States
- Designed by
- Richard Jordan Gatling
- Conflict
- American Civil War
- Image
- Fort Laramie National Historic Site Gatling gun 16-9-2014 15-26-03.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gatling guns
- service entry
- 1862-01-01
- service retirement
- 1911-01-01
- total produced
- 1300
- different from
- rotary cannon
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mitrailleuse Gatling modèle APX 1895
The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling of North Carolina. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the modern electric motor-driven rotary cannon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gatling gun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.