JAMES GATLING WAS FIRST TO TRY AND FIRST TO FAIL AT FLIGHT.(LOCAL)

The Virginian Pilot | March 11, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: CHRIS KIDDER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

Samuel Langley spent years and thousands of dollars during the 1890s attempting powered flight. His failures are the best-known, but in fact he was neither the first nor the least successful. Those distinctions lie with James Henry Gatling, a Carolina boy.

Gatling was born in 1816, in a small log cabin in Maney's Neck, N.C., near Murfreesboro. He was one of six children of Jordan and Mary Barnes Gatling.

While James Henry was still a child, his father amassed more than 1,200 acres, and the family moved into ...

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