The death of Richard Gatling: February 26th, 1903. (Months Past).(Biography)

From: History Today | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: Cavendish, Richard | Copyright information

THE INVENTOR OF the most efficient mass killing machine of its time lived to the age of eighty-four and died in his bed. Richard Jordan Gaffing came from a well-to-do family of planters in North Carolina. He took after his father in having a flair for machinery and in his twenties he invented a screw propeller for ships, only to find that someone else had invented it just before him. He next produced a machine for planting rice, wheat and other crops, went into business in St Louis...

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