Technology+and+Weaponry

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Gatling gun.


 * 1) The Gatling gun was created by Richard Gatling,who was born on the 12 of September of 1818. He was the son of Jordan Gatling. He grew up in a rich house with a lot of wealth. After school he would help his father work on making farm equipment and machines. Richard finished school at the age of 19. He spent some of his time as a school teacher and as a store owner.
 * 2) Later in life he moved to Indianapolis after he went to college. He went there to market machines. Then the civil war began and he led toward making guns and military equipment. As the war got bigger he started to develop and created the first Gatling gun named after his last name.

Artillery.

Small Arms. torpedoes
 * 1) The main artillery used in the Civil War was the cannon.There where many kinds of cannons that where used in the war.There is 2 types categories the first one is smoothbore which is just a regular cannon. but then the second one is cannons with rifling.rifling is cuts in a cannon that spiral up threw the bottom of the cannon to the top. witch increaces the acracry of the cannon. the cannons where also categorised in to projectile for instance 12 pounder 24 pounder etc. and also by caliber like a 3 inch and an 8 and 10 inch. they also had morters witch went high up to shoot over walls they where 12 pounders and an 8in caliber.
 * 2) cannons where used to destroy enemey naval ships and to destroy fort walls. cannons where very heavy so they where hard to move they had to use donkies and carts to move the cannons up down and around mountains and hills. callons have a range of 1700 yards and where made of brass. there where 2 different ways to shoot a cannon there is a grape shot witch is a lot of musket balls witch are just lead balls. they are loaded in to the cannon and shot out. this method is used for medium range combat. there is also the cannon ball witch is just a big ball of lead that is shot out of the cannon. this is used for long distance battles or medium distance.
 * 1) any weapon carried by a solider that is smaller that a cannon is considered a small arm. small arms include muskets, shoulder guns, and rifels,hand guns, and revolvers. both sides of the war used .58 caliber muskets and .69 cal. rifle both where loaded threw the muzzle. which is where you poor black gun powder down the muzzle of the gun and then a musket ball is dropped down in. then you take some powder and put it on the hammer of the gun.
 * 1) back then they invented one of the first torpedoes where made in Florida they where used on the few subs that they had. they could destroy basically any thing back then but they where not used a lot because it was considerd ungentleman like and the civil war was not a navil war but a land war.

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