1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced. 1870-1871- The Franco-German War. Breach ...

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented ... not to go to war in the first ...

In November 1864, during the final weeks of the American Civil War, a Union train pulls ... the latest military invention of Dr. Gatling, the Gatling Gun. Only four such weapons have been ...