Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — Over a Thousand Shots a Minute. [ARTICLE]

Over a Thousand Shots a Minute.

Th 6 history of the Gatling gun is familiar to all, but a stock company is now being organized in this city to provide for placing upon the markets of the world a military machine that is capable of firing over a thousand shots per minute, and Can sweep a field from right to left or vice verta without having the position of the carriage shifted, There are six barrels (as with tbe Gatling gun) but they revolve and are discharged by the turning of a crank which propels the hammer. The cartridges are strung on a strap, sev-enty-five on each. When one is exhausted it can be replaced by simply slipping a hook. But one man is needed to operate tbe murderous weapon, and if perchance the enemy should storm the works, and the operator should see that he could not destroy or delay the advancing columns until reinforced, he could disable the gun by sin’ply taking out the lock and putting it in his pocket as he fled the field. This would prevent his own gun being turned upon him—a decided improvement over the common cannon^— which have to be spiked. The inventor is Mt. T. L. Bailey, late of Shelby County. He has letters patent from Washington on the gun, and a special patent on the lock, and has applied to the great powers of Europe for patents. The model now on exhibition has been tested by the Mavy and by the principal manufacturers of

uurms in the East. Liberal propositions to manufacture the gun to fill any responsible foreign or borne order have tieen made by the leading manufacturers in this line. It is the plan of the inventor to form a Joint stock company of $250,000 and take subscriptions of $50,000 to pay for the making <>f two machines and the introduction of the engine in Europe and elsewhere where the population is to be reduced by civilized warfare.—lncbianapolie Sentinel.