Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It

Name: Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
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ISBN: 9780143115649

ISBN-10: 0143115642

ISBN-13: 9780143115649

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Authors: Julia Keller

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction



Cold Beauty



A World of Mornings



Land Of The Second Chance



"Drunkards, Dandies & Loafers"



The Spaces Between the Bullets



"A Little Gatling Music"



"The World's Great Storm"



Warriors And Sages


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index