The ancestor to the modern minigun was made in the 1860s. Richard Jordan Gatling replaced the hand cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor,
a relatively new invention at the time. Even after Gatling slowed down
the mechanism, the new electric-powered Gatling gun had a theoretical
rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, roughly three times the rate of
a typical modern, single-barreled machine gun. Gatling's
electric-powered design received U.S. Patent #502,185 on July 25, 1893.[1]
Despite Gatling's improvements, the Gatling gun fell into disuse after
cheaper, lighter-weight, recoil and gas operated machine guns were
invented.
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