The Bullet Machine: Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel

(NYTBR) - ... He invented it, he said in the gymnastic logic of gun makers, to save lives: its unparalleled firepower would enable one man to replace hundreds on the battlefield and thus “supersede the necessity of large armies.” And though the Gatling gun saw very limited action in the Civil War, afterward it proved extremely effective against Indians in the West, striking laborers in the East and anti-imperialist rebels all across the world. Continued

Photo: Gatling Gun, U.S. Army Ordnance Museum Aberdeen, Maryland. Canon EOS 5D