In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first ...
The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in the 1880s by Hiram Maxim, it used recoil energy to fire automatically, ...