Timeline Tuesday 4 November 1862

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Tuesday 4 November 1862

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Events on Tuesday 4 November 1862 1

1862 Richard Gatling patents rapid-fire gun Hand-cranked weapon foreshadows the machine gun Inventor Richard Gatling received a US patent for his hand-cranked, multi-barrel rapid-fire gun. Though used sparingly in the Civil War, the Gatling gun became the forerunner of the modern machine gun.

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