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portada Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
294
Format
Paperback
Weight
0.55
ISBN
0143115642
ISBN13
9780143115649
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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it

Julia Keller (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it - Julia Keller

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Synopsis "Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it "

A provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destructionDrawing 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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