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Gatling's 'battery gun', 9 May 1865The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862. Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is.Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required a person to crank it; therefore it was not a true.

The, invented and patented in 1883, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon. Nonetheless, the Gatling gun represented a huge leap in technology.Prior to the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to military forces capable of firing many projectiles in a short space of time were mass-firing, like the Belgian and French of the 1860s and 1870s, and field firing, much like an upsized. The latter were widely used during and after the. Although the maximum was increased by firing multiple projectiles simultaneously, these weapons still needed to be reloaded after each discharge, which for multi-barrel systems like the mitrailleuse was cumbersome and time-consuming. This negated much of the advantage of their high rate of fire per discharge, making them much less powerful on the battlefield. In comparison, the Gatling gun offered a rapid and continuous rate of fire without having to be manually reloaded by opening the breech.The original Gatling gun was a field weapon which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand, and firing loose (no links or belt) metal cartridge ammunition using a system from a hopper.

The Gatling gun's innovation lay in the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating, a rotating mechanism, and a gravity-feed reloading system, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.The US Army adopted Gatling guns in several calibers, including.42 caliber,.50 caliber, 1 inch, and (M1893 and later), with conversions of M1900 weapons to. The.45-70 weapon was also mounted on some ships of the 1880s and 1890s. American Civil War and the Americas The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the. Twelve of the guns were purchased personally by Union commanders and used in the trenches during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864 – April 1865). Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats.

The gun was not accepted by the American Army until 1866, when a sales representative of the manufacturing company demonstrated it in combat.On July 17, 1863, Gatling guns were purportedly used to. Two were brought by a unit from to use against strikers in.Gatling guns were famously not used at the, also known as 'Custer's Last Stand', when chose not to bring Gatlings with his main force.In April 1867, a Gatling gun was purchased for the by minister under instructions from president.Captain of the took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the United States to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile. Gatling guns were used by the Peruvian Navy and Army, especially in the (May 1880) and the (January 1881) against the invading Chilean Army.Lieutenant A.L. Howard of the had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns, and took a personally owned Gatling gun to, Canada, in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against rebels during 's.Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannons firing or canister shot. Gatling guns were even mounted aboard ships.

Compared with earlier weapons such as the mitrailleuse, which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate, and had a lower, but continuous rate of fire. The large wheels required to move these guns around required a high firing position, which increased the vulnerability of their crews.Sustained firing of cartridges generated a cloud of smoke, making concealment impossible until became available in the late 19th century. When operators were firing Gatling guns against troops of industrialized nations, they were at risk, being vulnerable to artillery they could not reach and they could not see. In Africa and Asia.

Further information:Because of infighting within army ordnance, Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during the.

A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling guns in, made by, was formed into a separate detachment led. The detachment proved very effective, supporting the advance of American forces at the. Three of the Gatlings with swivel mountings were used with great success against the Spanish defenders. During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle hills, the three guns fired a total of 18,000.30 Army rounds in 8 1/2 minutes (an average of over 700 rounds per minute per gun of continuous fire) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.Despite this remarkable achievement, the Gatling's weight and cumbersome artillery carriage hindered its ability to keep up with infantry forces over difficult ground, particularly in Cuba, where roads were often little more than jungle footpaths. By this time, the had been issued the modern tripod-mounted using the round, which they employed to defeat the Spanish infantry at the battle of.Basic design.

A British 1865 Gatling gun atThe Gatling gun operated by a hand-crank mechanism, with six barrels revolving around a central shaft (although some models had as many as ten). Each barrel fires once per revolution at about the same position. The barrels, a carrier, and a lock cylinder were separate and all mounted on a solid plate revolving around a central shaft, mounted on an oblong fixed frame. Turning the crank rotated the shaft.

The carrier was grooved and the lock cylinder was drilled with holes corresponding to the barrels.The casing was partitioned, and through this opening the barrel shaft was journaled. In front of the casing was a cam with spiral surfaces. The cam imparted a reciprocating motion to the locks when the gun rotated. Also in the casing was a cocking ring with projections to cock and fire the gun. Each barrel had a single lock, working in the lock cylinder on a line with the barrel. The lock cylinder was encased and joined to the frame. Early models had a fibrous matting stuffed in among the barrels, which could be soaked with water to cool the barrels down.

Later models eliminated the matting-filled barrels as being unnecessary.Cartridges, held in a hopper, dropped individually into the grooves of the carrier. The lock was simultaneously forced by the cam to move forward and load the cartridge, and when the cam was at its highest point, the cocking ring freed the lock and fired the cartridge. After the cartridge was fired the continuing action of the cam drew back the lock bringing with it the spent casing which then dropped to the ground.The grouped barrel concept had been explored by inventors since the 18th century, but poor engineering and the lack of a made previous designs unsuccessful.

The initial Gatling gun design used self-contained, reloadable steel cylinders with a chamber holding a ball and black-powder charge, and a percussion cap on one end. As the barrels rotated, these steel cylinders dropped into place, were fired, and were then ejected from the gun. The innovative features of the Gatling gun were its independent firing mechanism for each barrel and the simultaneous action of the locks, barrels, carrier and.The ammunition that Gatling eventually implemented was a charged with black powder and primed with a percussion cap, because self-contained brass cartridges were not yet fully developed and available. The shells were gravity-fed into the breech through a hopper or simple box 'magazine' with an unsprung gravity follower on top of the gun.

Each barrel had its own firing mechanism.Despite self-contained brass cartridges replacing the paper cartridge in the 1860s, it wasn't until the Model 1881 that Gatling switched to the 'Bruce'-style feed system (U.S. Patents 247,158 and 343,532) that accepted two rows of cartridges.

While one row was being fed into the gun, the other could be reloaded, thus allowing sustained fire. The final gun required four operators. By 1886, the gun was capable of firing more than 400 rounds per minute.The smallest-caliber gun also had a Broadwell drum feed in place of the curved box of the other guns. The drum, named after L.

Broadwell, an agent for Gatling's company, comprised twenty stacks of rounds arranged around a central axis, like the spokes of a wheel, each holding twenty cartridges with the bullet noses oriented toward the central axis. This invention was patented in U. As each stack emptied, the drum was manually rotated to bring a new stack into use until all 400 rounds had been fired. A more common variant had 240 rounds in twenty stands of fifteen.By 1893, the Gatling was adapted to take the new smokeless cartridge.

The new M1893 guns featured six barrels, later increased to ten barrels, and were capable of a maximum (initial) rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute, though 600 rpm was recommended for continuous fire. Gatling later used examples of the M1893 powered by electric motor and belt to drive the crank. Tests demonstrated the electric Gatling could fire bursts of up to 1,500 rpm.The M1893, with minor revisions, became the M1895, and 94 guns were produced for the U.S. Army by Colt. Four M1895 Gatlings under Lt.

Saw considerable combat during the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1898. The M1895 was designed to accept only the Bruce feeder. All previous models were unpainted, but the M1895 was painted olive drab (O.D.) green, with some parts left.The Model 1900 was very similar to the model 1895, but with only a few components finished in O.D. Army purchased a quantity of M1900s.

All Gatling Models 1895–1903 could be mounted on an armored field carriage. In 1903, the Army converted its M1900 guns in.30 Army to fit the new cartridge (standardized for the M1903 Springfield rifle) as the M1903. The later M1903-'06 was an M1903 converted to.

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This conversion was principally carried out at the Army's Springfield Armory arsenal repair shops. All models of Gatling guns were declared obsolete by the U.S. Military in 1911, after 45 years of service. Development of modern Gatling-type guns. Main articles: andAfter the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil or gas-operated weapons, the approach of using multiple externally powered rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades.

However, some examples were developed during the interwar years, but only existed as prototypes or were rarely used. The concept resurfaced after World War II with the development of the and the. Many other versions of the Gatling gun were built from the late 20th century to the present, the largest of these being the 30mm autocannon.

Current usage favors mounted guns, either vehicular or emplaced, where the fire rate necessitates multiple barrels to space out the use of each to avoid melting a single barrel at full auto fire. These guns are not able to be fired by humans, and attempting to do so can be fatal as the rotational force from the extreme rapid rotation of modern miniguns throws the gun at the user if it is not secured.See also.References. Weight listed for Colt's Model 1877 10-barrel gun, w/o carriage or mount. From the original on 2016-02-24. ^ Parker, John H. (Lt.), The Gatlings At Santiago, Middlesex, UK: Echo Library (reprinted 2006). Chambers, John W.

(II) (2000). The Oxford Companion to American Military History. HighBeam Research Inc.

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36,386 (issued: Nov. 4, 1862). ^; Leon Case (1872). P. 944.

Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, The Gatling Gun, Arco Publishing, 1971. Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, The Gatling Gun, Arco Publishing, 1971, p. 155. Randolph, Captain W. S., 5th US Artillery 2016-01-31 at the.

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(Lt.), History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. 20, 23–32. Parker, John H.: Cranked by hand at its highest speed until the first magazine of ammunition had been emptied, the M1895.30 Gatling Gun had an initial rate of fire of 800–900 rounds per minute. U.S.

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Blueprints and working drawings for guns. A friend and myself are in the process of building two Model of 1876, 45-70 Gatling Guns. We have spent a small fortune on supposely original prints for Gatling Guns. They are a farce to work with, every set we bought were incomplete, missing pages etc. The prints only show one view, very difficult to interpet with sketchy dimensions.

Don't think the 22 cal versions are scaled down fullsize drawings, they are not even close. Our guns are almost 95% done and we would have never gotten that far without the help of a couple on nice guys who built replicas for a living. One guy even took his original gun apart and sent the reciever and internals to us so we could copy parts. Without thier help we would be still stumbling in the dark. It has been a hard road. The guy who sold us the castings sent us castings that were not even for that Model Gun and they could not be modified to work with what we had.

We had to get the right castings from another source. Nice guy, right.I guess what I'm saying is that you have to be careful buying blueprints of guns.

A lot is promised but when you get into the build you might need some help. Will post pictures of the gun when finished in a couple of months. A problem with the tripod casting supplier is slowing us down.

Hey thanks for your comments. I checked the catalog at the county library and the one book that looked like a must have, by HOLMES, can't be checked out. I will get into some of the others though. I can see that the amateur gunsmithing and building has quite a large following.

The whole thing looks pretty complex. I don't consider myself a gun person though I have a couple pieces.

I've been focusing on metalworking and building up my inventory of tools for many years and I think building a gun or two would be a good way to use the knowhow I have aquired. Thanks kilroy, where would i find the laws that need to be met to build one. I've often thought of trying to design and build several. I have the ideas in my head and rough sketches but never really went any further.i dont want to break any laws.Google 'National Firearms Act' and 'Gun Control Act'.So long as it has a bore diameter under.50, a minimum overall length of 26', a minimum barrel length of 16' in the case of rifles or 18' in the case with shotguns (and doesn't shoot full auto), you're pretty much good to go. If you do want to make a short barreled shotgun or rifle, you can do so but it will cost you a $200 tax and any subsequent transfers will cost the recipient $200. You cannot make machineguns at all without paying an annual 'Special Occupations Tax' that allows you to make machinegun for demonstration purposes, but you cannot keep them after you surrender your license.Bear in mind there are a few regulations that are quirky.

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For example, you cannot have a smooth bore pistol without prior approval. Hello JonMy name is Jon also.I am sure you are getting hammered about Garling guns. But I am despertly looking for Plans for the 45-70. My sun and I want to build 2, Looking for yoke, castings, and plans we have a pretty complete machine shop as a hobby, and a super sharp son.I am in Electronics for thr railroad.Also web site littlejon.comUnder toys forever A few bikes I have built.Please let me know if you can help us.Thanks for your time Little JonJon McClellandCustom Electronics1940 Ford St.Golden Co. 80401303-278-6225Thanks Little Jon.