Gatling's intellectual development stage is

Gatling was originally a doctor, but he devoted his life to the project. 186 1 When the American Civil War started, gatling saw too many casualties in the hospital. In addition to casualties on the battlefield, many soldiers died of disease and malnutrition. Gatling believes that if the number of soldiers can be reduced, thousands of lives can be saved. Gatling hopes to invent a gun, which can support many fierce rifles, so that a soldier can have many soldiers' fighting capacity (his goal is to support a company with one soldier), thus reducing the number of soldiers on the battlefield and achieving the purpose of reducing war casualties.

In the summer of 186 1 2008, gatling began to design the revolver machine gun. At the end of that year, the model of the machine gun was completed and verified the following year.

1862 1 1 On April 4th, 2008, gatling obtained the Gatling machine gun patent, which not only included the technical description of Gatling machine gun model of 1862, but also included the design features of the two-point Gatling machine gun research institute: a cylindrical rotator with a firing pin for locking the gun bore, together with the barrel. Each barrel has an independent needle. This makes it impossible to patent all future designs similar to Gatling machine guns.