Gatling

Gatling, RICHARD JORDAN, born in 1818, in Hertford county, North Carolina, studied medicine but never practised, and is known for inventions as various as machines for sowing cotton and rice and for dressing hemp, a steau-plough, and the famous Gatling gun (1861-62), a revolving battery gun, usually having ten parallel barrels, and firing in some cases as many as 1200 shots a minute. See MACHINE GUNS.