“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine — a gun — which could, by rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a great extent, supersede the necessity of large armies.”
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– Richard Gatling, inventor of “the first reliable machinegun,” 1877 (as quoted in The Economist, June 14)
writerchick said,
June 27, 2008 at 2:44 pm
And so began the assembly line of life?
Annie
anthropologist said,
June 27, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Yes, with very unpredictable results!