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

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

Julia Keller

304 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative reflective slow-paced
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A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower Although it was little used during the American Civil War—the time in which it was invented—the Gatling gun soon changed the nature of wa...

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