Forgotten Weapons on MSN
Legendary steampunk machine gun
The Maxim Gun, the world’s first successful true machine gun, gained rapid global popularity following its testing at Enfield ...
Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...
Today I Found Out on MSN
The race to build the world’s first automatic weapon
The machine gun, a weapon that reshaped modern warfare, emerged after centuries of experimentation with rapid-fire arms.
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. 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 ...
Yellowstone County Museum director Benjamin Nordlund discusses the history of the World War I Maxim machine gun and how the Billings American Legion came to acquire a pair.
Key Point: During just one day in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme the British lost 21,000 men – many of them killed by Spandau machine guns, the German version of the ...
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