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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it (in English)
Julia Keller (Author)
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Penguin Group
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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it (in English) - Julia Keller
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Synopsis "Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it (in English)"
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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