Tom Condon
Dr. Richard Gattling, inventor of the repeating rifle, was a compassionate physician horrified by the number and severity of wounds he saw in the American civil war. So he invented the repeating rifle, the machine gun – first called the Gattling Gun. He believed that the weapon would make warfare so deadly and futile that it would become obsolete. That, of course, didn’t go as planned.
Eights are prone to well-intentioned but ill-conceived courses of action and their problems sometim...
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