The M134 GAU-17 “Vulcan” cannon is a six-barreled, air cooled, medium machine gun used primarily as a fire suppression weapon in aircraft for the U.S. military. The so-called “Gatling ...

Gatling went on to found the Gatling Gun Company. Fort Wayne native Sylvanus Bowser invented and sold the first gasoline pump in 1885, which predates the automobile industry. The pump dispensed ...

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first ...