Next to artillery, nothing took more lives during World War I, between 1914 - 1918, than the machine gun, allowing small groups to take our large swaths of soldiers and deadly from up to 2 kilometers away. People have been shooting at eachother since the 13th century but in 1862, during the height of the American Civil War, a Carolina physician named Richard Gatling filed a patient for a large, 2 man operated weapon, which could fire 200 rounds per minute. Gatling realized that around 70% of sol...
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