Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel
The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
Julia Keller
ISBN: | 9781440633591 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books |
Published: | 29 May, 2008 |
Format: | Kindle Edition |
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Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel
The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
Julia Keller
A provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction Drawing on her investigative and literary talents, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world's first working machine gun. Through her portrait of its misunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hoped that the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weapon would save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing the number of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallels to the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half a century later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradox of America's rise in the nineteenth century to a world superpower.
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