Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything...

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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Julia Keller talks about how the invention of the first machine gun changed both warfare and world history, the genius of the American patent office, how amateur inventors changed the face of society, and of the technological prowess of 19th Century America. Ms. Keller joins Dean Lawrence R. Velvel on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Books of our Time.

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Science & Technology

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• julia keller
• gatling
• warfare
• civil war
• american
• world
• history
• morgan
• rockefeller
• carnegie
• patents
• patent office
• machine
• gun
• technology
• industrial revolution

[inkey2]

I heard that the gatling guns real strength was all psychological. The enemy on the other side of the Gatling gun was horror stricken at the thought of possibly geing cut in half by one.

[rightsman123]

This lady is full of it. She draws so many conclusions here that you have to dismiss her logic entirety. The Gatling gun was not even that well used in the Civil War. It was very ineffective as well.