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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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Mr  Gatling s Terrible Marvel
  • Author : Julia Keller
  • Release : 29 May 2008
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • ISBN : 9781440633591
  • Genre : History
  • Total Page : 326 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 18,9 Mb

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