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See also:GATLING, See also:RICHARD See also:JORDAN (1818–1903) , See also:American inventor, was See also:born in See also:Hertford See also:county, See also:North Carolina, on the 12th of See also:September 1818. He was the son of a well-to-do planter and slave-owner, from whom he inherited a See also:genius for See also:mechanical invention and whom he assisted in the construction and perfecting of See also:machines for See also:sowing See also:cotton seeds, and for thinning the See also:plants. He was well educated and was successively a school teacher and a See also:merchant, spending all his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in developing new inventions. In 1839 he perfected a See also:practical See also:- SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl
screw propeller for See also:steam-boats, only _to find that a patent had been granted to See also:John Ericsson for a similar invention a few months earlier. He established himself in St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Missouri, and taking the cotton-sowing See also:machine as a basis he adapted it for sowing See also:rice, See also:wheat and other grains, and established factories for its manufacture. The introduction of these machines did much to revolutionize the agricultural See also:system in the See also:country. Becoming interested in the study of See also:medicine through an attack of smallpox, he completed a course at the See also:Ohio Medical See also:College, taking his M.D. degree in 185o. In the same See also:year he invented a See also:hemp-breaking machine, and in 1857 a steam plough. At the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he was living in See also:Indianapolis, and devoted himself at once to the perfecting of See also:fire-arms. In 1861 he conceived the See also:idea of the rapid fire machine-See also:gun which is associated with his name. By 1862 he had succeeded in perfecting a gun that would See also:discharge 350 shots per See also:minute; but the war was practically over before the Federal authorities consented to its See also:official See also:adoption. From that time, however, the success of the invention was assured, and within ten years it had been adopted by almost every civilized nation. Gatling died in New See also:York See also:City on the 26th of See also:February 1903.
End of Article: GATLING, RICHARD JORDAN (1818–1903)
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