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Richard Jordan Gatling,
(12 Sep 1818 - 26 Feb 1903)
American inventor , whose Gatling gun (1861) was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate and ease of loading.
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Science Quotes by Richard Jordan Gatling, (1 quote)
It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.
— Richard Jordan Gatling,
In P. Wahl and D. R. Toppel, The Gatling Gun (1966), 12.
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
