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The '''Gatling Gun''' was one of the precursors to the modern machine gun, and the first support weapon to possess a mechanical cycle of function; while previous rapid-fire guns had required multiple barrels to fire multiple shots, Gatling's gun instead used a mechanism resembling a rack of bolt-action rifles with their bolts interfacing with cams to operate them as the barrel group was rotated by a hand crank, using a single common feed source. The gun was initially used with paper cartridges in metal chamber sleeves, but switched to brass metallic cartridges with their invention. | |||
In the strictest sense Gatling's invention was not a machine gun since it was still completely manually operated, with the [[Maxim]] being the first true machine gun; it is often categorised as one because the effect of the weapon was the same. Gatling also experimented with rigging one of his guns to an early electric motor, experiments that would be revitalised during the 1950s with the development of the [[M61 Vulcan]] aircraft cannon. | |||
When Gatling guns were ordered by Tsarist Russia their production was overseen by General Aleksandr Gorloff, the military attaché to the Russian embassy in Washington DC. Gorloff slyly had his own name stamped on the weapons in Cyrillic before they were shipped, leading to some confusion in Russia with nationalists crediting Gorloff as the inventor and referring to the weapons as "Gorloff Guns." | |||
'''Gatling Guns of multiple manufacturers have been used in the following films:''' | '''Gatling Guns of multiple manufacturers have been used in the following films:''' | ||
[[Image:Gatling_gun_1865.jpg|thumb|right|300px|British M1865 Gatling Gun at the Royal Artillery Museum - .58 Rimfire / .50-70]] | [[Image:Gatling_gun_1865.jpg|thumb|right|300px|British M1865 Gatling Gun at the Royal Artillery Museum - .58 Rimfire / .50-70]] | ||
Revision as of 01:50, 31 October 2015
The Gatling Gun was one of the precursors to the modern machine gun, and the first support weapon to possess a mechanical cycle of function; while previous rapid-fire guns had required multiple barrels to fire multiple shots, Gatling's gun instead used a mechanism resembling a rack of bolt-action rifles with their bolts interfacing with cams to operate them as the barrel group was rotated by a hand crank, using a single common feed source. The gun was initially used with paper cartridges in metal chamber sleeves, but switched to brass metallic cartridges with their invention.
In the strictest sense Gatling's invention was not a machine gun since it was still completely manually operated, with the Maxim being the first true machine gun; it is often categorised as one because the effect of the weapon was the same. Gatling also experimented with rigging one of his guns to an early electric motor, experiments that would be revitalised during the 1950s with the development of the M61 Vulcan aircraft cannon.
When Gatling guns were ordered by Tsarist Russia their production was overseen by General Aleksandr Gorloff, the military attaché to the Russian embassy in Washington DC. Gorloff slyly had his own name stamped on the weapons in Cyrillic before they were shipped, leading to some confusion in Russia with nationalists crediting Gorloff as the inventor and referring to the weapons as "Gorloff Guns."
Gatling Guns of multiple manufacturers have been used in the following films:
Note: This page is reserved for the 19th century models of Gatling Guns build by manufacturers such as Colt. Modern electric driven Gatling-type weapons don't belong here nor should they be linked here.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Real Glory | David Niven | Lt. Terence McCool | Model 1883 | 1939 |
| Gunga Din | British troops | Model 1883 | 1939 | |
| The War Wagon | Bruce Cabot | Frank Pierce | mounted in turret | 1967 |
| The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Union Army | 1966 | ||
| Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Bernie Casey | Cassie | 1883 model | 1969 |
| 100 Rifles | Mexican soldiers, Indians | 1969 | ||
| Two Mules for Sister Sara | French Troops | 1970 | ||
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Pinkertons | 1972 | ||
| The Outlaw Josey Wales | Union Army | 1975 | ||
| Rooster Cogburn | John Wayne | Rooster Cogburn | 1975 | |
| Rooster Cogburn | Katharine Hepburn | 1975 | ||
| Young Guns | Union Army | 1988 | ||
| Batman Returns | 1992 | |||
| Bad Girls | Madeleine Stowe | Cody | Model 1874 | 1994 |
| Nostromo | 1996 | |||
| Wild Wild West | 1999 | |||
| American Outlaws | Union Army | 2001 | ||
| The Last Samurai | Imperial Japanese Army | Model 1874 | 2003 | |
| Van Helsing | weapons tester | 2004 | ||
| Tremors 4: The Legend Begins | Michael Gross | Hiram Gummer | 2004 | |
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | cart gunners | Rubber Model 1874 | 2007 | |
| The Book of Eli | Carnegie's men | 2010 | ||
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Meinhard guards | Ammo fed from Broadwell drums | 2011 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey | ||||
| Rough Riders | U.S Army | 1997 | ||
| Deadliest Warrior | Theodore Roosevelt | Model 1897| 2009-??? |
Animation
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rango | The Mole Clan | belt-fed; attached to saddles | 2011 |
| Rango | Rattlesnake Jake | attached to tail in place of a rattle | 2011 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resident Evil 4 | 2005 | ||
| Gun | 2005 | ||
| Call of Juarez | With a drum magazine | 2007 | |
| Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood | With drum and stick magazines | 2009 | |
| Jurassic: The Hunted | Used as a turret weapon | 2009 | |
| Red Dead Redemption | Without a magazine | 2010 | |
| Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West | With unlimited magazine | 2010 | |
| Total War: Shogun 2 — Fall of the Samurai | 2011 | ||
| The Showdown Effect | portable | 2013 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gun Frontier | Shitalnen | 2002 | |
| Steamboy | Mounted in Steam Castle | 2005 | |
| Mystic Archives of Dantalian, The | A group of suitors | Broadwell drum | 2011 |
| Suisei no Gargantia | Sailors | 2013 |