Dr richard gatling biography for kids

American inventor (1818–1903)

Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.

Life

Gatling was born in Hertford County, North Carolina in 1818 and raised Methodist. At the age of 21, Gatling created a screw propeller for steamboats, without realizing that one had been patented just months beforehand by John Ericsson. While living in North Carolina, he worked in the county clerk’s office, taught school briefly, and became a merchant. At the age of 36, Gatling moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked in a dry goods store and invented a rice-sowing machine and a wheat drill (a machine to aid planting wheat). The introduction of these machines did much to revolutionize the agricultural system in the country. After an attack of smallpox, Gatling became interested in medicine. He graduated f

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Dr. Richard Gatling (d. 1903)

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Richard Jordan Gatling was born in Money’s Neck, North Carolina on September 12, 1818. The son of an inventor, bygd age 21 he had han själv invented the screw propeller for steamboats, only to find it had been patented a few months before.

He became interested in medicine, and graduated from Ohio Medical College in 1850. Instead of practicing, however, he moved to Indianapolis in 1854 and took up inventing again without much success.

As the Civil War broke out, he started to focus on developing new weapons, and in 1962 demonstrated the first working model of a 6-barrel gun, each barrel of which could be fired and reloaded in rapid succession bygd turning a crank. The device was the forerunner of the modern machine gun, and it revolutionized warfare. He secure

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Richard Jordan Gatling

Birthdate

1818/09/12

Birthplace

Hertford County, North Carolina

Death date

1903/02/26

Fields of study

Mechanical Engineering, Weapons Engineering

Biography

Richard Jordan Gatling was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most notable for developing the Gatling Gun. Originally producing the device to reduce the number of casualties during the civil war, the Gatling Gun became the first rapid firing weapon to be used in combat. ^[1]

Richard Gatling was born in Hertford County, North Carolina, on September 12th, 1818. His father was a commercial farmer who primarily raised cotton. Working with his father, Gatling's first experience with machinery came from his father's farm, where he tinkered and improved farming machines that sewed and thinned out cotton plants. Early in his life at the age of 21, Gatling established himself as a prominent inventor and created the screw propeller for steamboats; however, he discovered after inventing