With the given names Richard Jordan who was the inventor of the first machine gun in 1863?
"Richard Jordan Gatling Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, considered to be the first successful machine gun, though it is not a true machine gun by modern definitions. Gatling was born in Hertford County, North Carolina, in 1818. At the age of 21, Gatling created a screw propeller for steamboats, without realizing that one had been patented just months prior by John Ericsson. While living in North Carolina, he worked in the county clerk’s office, taught school briefly, and became a merchant. At"
"in conjunction with his son, Mr. Thomas Rowland Jordan. Jordan's last invention, patented in 1877, was a portable machine for boring blast-holes in rock. He died in Bournemouth on 31 May 1890. Jordan married, in 1837, Sarah Dunn. They had eleven children. He died 1890-05-31. Mrs. Jordan survived him. Thomas Brown Jordan Thomas Brown Jordan (24 October 1807 – 31 May 1890) was a British inventor and engineer. Born at Bristol on 24 October 1807, he was the son of Thomas Jordan (a Quaker engineer), and began life as an artist. When barely twenty he moved to Falmouth. While painting"
"automatic cannon. Part of the patent also refers to a steam-operated piston to be used with firearms but the bulk of the patent is spent detailing the former system. In America, a patent for a machine gun type weapon was filed by John Andrus Reynolds in 1855. Another early American patent for a manually operated machine gun was filed by C. E. Barnes in 1856. In France and Britain, a mechanically operated machine gun was patented in 1856 by the Frenchman Francois Julien. This weapon was a cannon that fed from a type of open-ended tubular magazine, only using rollers"
"Thomas Brown Jordan Thomas Brown Jordan (24 October 1807 – 31 May 1890) was a British inventor and engineer. Born at Bristol on 24 October 1807, he was the son of Thomas Jordan (a Quaker engineer), and began life as an artist. When barely twenty he moved to Falmouth. While painting there and at Penzance he made the acquaintance of Robert Were Fox the Younger, in whose physical researches he took the greatest interest, as well as becoming drawing master to Fox's son, Barclay. R.W.Fox's influence led him to relinquish painting and to set up as a mathematical instrument maker"
"comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: ""I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence—the discovery one of these days of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation and men's fears will force them to keep the peace."" Richard Jordan Gatling patented his namesake rotary gun in 1862 with the partial intention of illustrating the futility of war. After his 1867 invention of dynamite, Alfred Nobel stated that ""The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is"
"to be used by the British Army. Richards opened a gun store in London in 1815 on New Bond Street. The store was owned and managed by William Bishop, known as the Bishop of Bond Street. Control of the gunsmith company was inherited by Westley Richards, eldest son of the founder. Richards carried on in a similar vein to his father, innovating various guns and registering patents. William Westley Richards William Westley Richards (24 November 1789 – 11 September 1865) was a British firearms manufacturer and founder of Westley Richards. Richards was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England to Theophilus Richards"
"Gardner gun The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanical machine gun. It had one, two or five barrels, was fed from a vertical magazine or hopper and was operated by a crank. When the crank was turned, a feed arm positioned a cartridge in the breech, the bolt closed and the weapon fired. Turning the crank further opened the breechblock and extracted the spent case. The Gardner machine gun was invented in 1874 by William Gardner of Toledo, Ohio formerly a captain in the Union army during the American Civil War. After producing a prototype he went to"
"originated the idea of applying successive charges of gunpowder to accelerate the velocity of a projectile. In 1862, with a French inventor named George Raphael (sometimes reported as Rafael), a supplier of revolvers and swords to the Union army, Haskell invented and constructed a rapid-firing machine gun which became known as the Rafael Repeater. It was mounted on a light artillery carriage and fired standard rifle bullets. Unlike contemporary machine-guns, it did not use a feed hopper or separate cartridge chambers. However, few details remain of how it worked, apart from a mention in a letter from John Ericsson: Rafael"
"designated M134 and XM196 by the United States Army, and GAU-2/A and GAU-17/A by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. ""Minigun"" refers to a specific model of weapon that General Electric originally produced, but the term ""minigun"" has popularly come to refer to any externally powered rotary-style gun of rifle caliber. The term is sometimes used loosely to refer to guns of similar rates of fire and configuration regardless of power source and caliber. The ancestor to the modern minigun was a hand cranked mechanical device invented in the 1860s by Richard Jordan Gatling. Gatling later replaced the hand-cranked"
"was an early gun innovator, creating a number of gun-related patents. The two most significant was the patent relating to the use of a new waterproof primer for the ignition of percussion guns and also the first flip-up sight, which went on to be used by the British Army. Richards opened a gun store in London in 1815 on New Bond Street. The store was owned and managed by William Bishop, who was known as the Bishop of Bond Street. It was stated in a book published by G. T. Teasdale-Buckell in 1900, that Bishop had served as a lieutenant."
"Thomas Jackson Rodman Thomas Jackson Rodman (July 31, 1816 – June 7, 1871) was an American artillerist, inventor, ordnance specialist, and career United States Army officer. He served as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, in which he was noted for his many improvements and innovations concerning the artillery used by the Union forces. He is especially remembered for developing the Rodman gun, which in various sizes saw extensive use in coastal defenses, and was called the ""strongest cast iron cannon ever made."" General Rodman also discovered the use of shaped gunpowder grains, in which properly compressing"
"F. W. Jordan Frank Wilfred Jordan (6 October, 1881 - 12 January, 1941) was a British physicist who together with William Henry Eccles invented the so-called ""flip-flop"" circuit in 1918. This circuit became the basis of electronic memory in computers. Frank Wilfred Jordan was born on 06 Oct 1881 in Canterbury, Kent, England, the son of Edward James Jordan and Eliza Edith King. He married Fanny Bentley Wood, a florist, in Canterbury, when based in Newhaven as a soldier on 07 Dec 1916. He died on 12 Jan 1941 in Coltham, Gretton Road, Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, England, aged 59. Information including"
"Gordon Ingram Gordon B. Ingram (December 30, 1924 – November 4, 2004) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. Along with Mitchell L. WerBell III, they founded Military Armament Corporation. Ingram was the creator of the MAC-10 and MAC-11 machine pistols, and is widely credited with repopularizing the submachine gun. Gordon B. Ingram was born in Los Angeles, California. His first foray into the weapons design world was during his years of service in the United States Army. He designed the Ingram Model 6 in 1949 and later went on to design and manufacture the famous MAC-10 and MAC-11, which earned"
"Rodman gun The Rodman gun is any of a series of American Civil War–era columbiads designed by Union artilleryman Thomas Jackson Rodman (1815–1871). The guns were designed to fire both shot and shell. These heavy guns were intended to be mounted in seacoast fortifications. They were built in 8-inch, 10-inch, 13-inch, 15-inch, and 20-inch bore. Other than size, the guns were all nearly identical in design, with a curving bottle shape, large flat cascabels with ratchets or sockets for the elevating mechanism. Rodman guns were true guns that did not have a howitzer-like powder chamber, as did many earlier columbiads."
"John Wilkinson (industrialist) John ""Iron-Mad"" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as those used in steam engines of James Watt. His boring machine has been called the first machine tool. He also developed a blowing device for blast furnaces that allowed higher temperatures, increasing their efficiency. John Wilkinson was born in Little Clifton, Bridgefoot, Cumberland (now part of Cumbria), the eldest son of"
"Gatling gun The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun and rotary cannon. Invented by Richard Gatling, it saw occasional use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat. Later, it was used again in numerous military conflicts, such as the Boshin War, the Anglo-Zulu War, and the assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish–American War. It was also used by the Pennsylvania militia in episodes of the Great Railroad"
"had one of the world's largest private collections of military rifles. He died at his home in Syracuse after an illness of several months. Cause of death on January 31, 1929, was bronchial pneumonia. Alexander T. Brown Alexander Timothy Brown (November 21, 1854 – January 31, 1929) was an inventor, engineer, businessman and entrepreneur in Syracuse, New York and was credited with over 100 inventions. He invented the Smith Premier typewriter, the L. C. Smith breech-loading shotgun and the two-speed ""Hi-Lo Bi-Gear"" for bicycles. He was one of the founders of the Brown-Lipe Gear Company, a manufacturer of bicycle gears"
"chronicles some of these sons and daughters of the American Revolution dating from Jamestown to the 1950s. Michael Jackson (American soldier) General Michael Jackson (18 December 1734 – 10 April 1801) was a soldier from Massachusetts. He is best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger. Jackson and Grainger were the first to perfect the use of diecutting and glass UV on offset machines. Jackson was born in Newton, Province of Massachusetts and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. He married Ruth Parker, daughter of Ebenezer Parker, on"
"was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862. Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is. Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required a person to crank it; therefore it was not a true automatic weapon. The Maxim gun, invented and patented in 1883, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon."
"poor management. His corpse, in its distinctive iron coffin, was moved several times over the next decades, but is now lost. John Wilkinson (industrialist) John ""Iron-Mad"" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as those used in steam engines of James Watt. His boring machine has been called the first machine tool. He also developed a blowing device for blast furnaces that allowed higher"
"Alexander T. Brown Alexander Timothy Brown (November 21, 1854 – January 31, 1929) was an inventor, engineer, businessman and entrepreneur in Syracuse, New York and was credited with over 100 inventions. He invented the Smith Premier typewriter, the L. C. Smith breech-loading shotgun and the two-speed ""Hi-Lo Bi-Gear"" for bicycles. He was one of the founders of the Brown-Lipe Gear Company, a manufacturer of bicycle gears and later Brown-Lipe-Chapin Company, a manufacturer of automobile gears, differentials and transmissions, which merged with General Motors in 1922. In the field of public life and commercial and industrial activity, Alexander Timothy Brown was"
"resulted in vastly increased production. By 1856 a machine shop was built on American mass-production lines, using American machinery powered by steam engines. The shop was based on a design by John Anderson and built by the Royal Engineers. The workforce increased to 1000, and by 1860 an average of 1,744 rifles were produced per week. In 1866 another major expansion took place, when the watermill gave way to steampower. The total number of steam engines grew to sixteen; and by 1887 there were 2,400 employees. On the liquidation of the National Arms and Ammunition Company in 1887 a number"
"Thompson submachine gun The Thompson submachine gun is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1918, that became infamous during the Prohibition era, being a signature weapon of various crime syndicates in the United States. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals. The Thompson submachine gun was also known informally as the ""Tommy Gun"", ""Annihilator"", ""Chicago Typewriter"", ""Chicago Piano"", ""Chicago Style"", ""Chicago Organ Grinder"", ""Trench Broom"", ""Trench Sweeper"", ""The Chopper"", and simply ""The Thompson"". The Thompson was favored by soldiers, criminals, police, FBI and"
"same period. There remains some ambiguity about the activities of von Dreyse after he created the needle-gun, as he seems to have dropped the ""Johann"" part of his name and was known as ""Nikolaus von Dreyse"". Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 as the ""Leichte Perscussions-Gewehr M 1841"" – a name deliberately chosen to mislead about the rifle's mechanism –"
"became perhaps the most important circuits in computer technology, allowing binary data to be stored. F. W. Jordan Frank Wilfred Jordan (6 October, 1881 - 12 January, 1941) was a British physicist who together with William Henry Eccles invented the so-called ""flip-flop"" circuit in 1918. This circuit became the basis of electronic memory in computers. Frank Wilfred Jordan was born on 06 Oct 1881 in Canterbury, Kent, England, the son of Edward James Jordan and Eliza Edith King. He married Fanny Bentley Wood, a florist, in Canterbury, when based in Newhaven as a soldier on 07 Dec 1916. He died"
"condition. Thompson submachine gun The Thompson submachine gun is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1918, that became infamous during the Prohibition era, being a signature weapon of various crime syndicates in the United States. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals. The Thompson submachine gun was also known informally as the ""Tommy Gun"", ""Annihilator"", ""Chicago Typewriter"", ""Chicago Piano"", ""Chicago Style"", ""Chicago Organ Grinder"", ""Trench Broom"", ""Trench Sweeper"", ""The Chopper"", and simply ""The Thompson"". The Thompson was favored by soldiers, criminals, police, FBI"
"Michael Jackson (American soldier) General Michael Jackson (18 December 1734 – 10 April 1801) was a soldier from Massachusetts. He is best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger. Jackson and Grainger were the first to perfect the use of diecutting and glass UV on offset machines. Jackson was born in Newton, Province of Massachusetts and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. He married Ruth Parker, daughter of Ebenezer Parker, on January 31, 1759. In the American Revolutionary War he was captain of a minuteman company and took"
"John Pedersen (arms designer) John Douglas Pedersen (May 21, 1881 – May 23, 1951) was a prolific arms designer who worked for Remington Arms, and later for the United States Government. Famed gun designer John Moses Browning told Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher of U.S. Army Ordnance that Pedersen ""was the greatest gun designer in the world"". Pedersen is best known for the 1918 Pedersen device that converted a standard military Springfield 1903 rifle to a semi-automatic, pistol-caliber firearm. He designed several successful sporting guns for Remington, including the novel Model 51 pistol, the Model 10 pump-action shotgun and the"
"handguns, a Model 1910 semi-automatic pistol in 9×17mm (.380 ACP) (serial number 19074) was one of four weapons that were taken from the assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, although it is unknown which of the four weapons fired the fatal round. John Moses Browning began development of the Browning GP35 'High Power' (sometimes written as ""Hi-Power"") pistol, the ""GP"" standing for ""Grande Puissance"" or ""high power"" in French. However, the weapon was finalized by Dieudonné Saive and did not appear until nearly a decade after Browning's death. The FN Manufacturing LLC plant in Columbia, South Carolina is part"
"of London"" as illustration 77: This appears to have been one of the Montagu guns on loan to the Tower at the time. James Puckle James Puckle (1667–1724) was an English inventor, lawyer and writer from London chiefly remembered for his invention of the ""Defence Gun"", better known as the ""Puckle gun"", a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of (depending on which version) firing up to nine rounds per minute. The Puckle gun is one of the first weapons referred to as a machine gun (though its operation does not match the modern definition of the term) and"
"Frederick Beaumont Frederick Edward Blackett Beaumont (22 October 1833 – 20 August 1899) was an English-born British officer of the Royal Engineers who produced several inventions, including a tunneling machine which bore his name, and the Beaumont–Adams revolver. Beaumont was the son of Edward Blackett Beaumont and Jane Lee. He was born in Darfield, South Yorkshire and educated at the Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, England. Beaumont served in the Royal Engineers and was a contemporary of General Charles George Gordon; his name appeared directly before Gordon's in the Army Lists from the date of their first commissioning on"
"Richard Jordan (RAF officer) Air Marshal Sir Richard Bowen Jordan, (7 February 1902 – 24 April 1994) was a bomber pilot and squadron commander during the Second World War, a senior Royal Air Force officer during the post-war years and the sixth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps (1949–51). Educated at Marlborough College Sir Richard was one of the very first cadets at the new RAF College Cranwell in 1921, at the age of 19, where he learned to fly. He represented the college at both cricket and rugby having been appointed in the rank of flight cadet sergeant. On"
"Fittipaldi machine gun The Fittipaldi machine gun is a recoil-operated machine gun designed by Rafael Fittipaldi (an Italian immigrant to Argentina) and patented as USPTO number 1,099,245, of June 9, 1914. The Fittipaldi machine gun uses the barrel of the Argentinian Mauser Model 1891 rifle as well as its bolt, the latter adapted for rectilinear action. It was fed by a non-disintegrating belt and used a traditional tripod as mount. A water jacket covered the entire length of its barrel, giving it an external appearance similar to the Lewis Gun. The Fittipaldi machine gun was not adopted by the Argentine"