This gun is a completely new departure, the article states.
Of course it is necessary to put the first cartridge into the barrel by hand.
A variant of the Maxim gun in odz, Poland.
Maxim was born in Maine in 1840.
Maxim was drawn to invention early in life.
He designed a mousetrap that automatically reset and helped mill owners get rid of rodents.
At the age of 26 he received his first patent for a curling iron.
Hiram filed a total of 271 patents during his long and illustrious career.
Maxim developed and installed the first electric lights in a New York City building.
To maximize the gun’s effectiveness, Maxim also developed his own smokeless powder.
But now I have seen it done with my own eyes.
Hiram Maxim and the Maxim gun, along with Louis Cassier and J. Bucknall Smith.
In 1897, Maxims company was absorbed by Vickers Corporation to become ‘Vickers, Son & Maxim’.
Machine guns proved to be catastrophic in war.
In the first World War, machine guns were used extensively on both sides.
British Vickers machine gun crew during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916.
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One of Maxim’s last inventions was an effective bronchial inhaler.
I was the first man in the world to make an automatic gun.
It is astonishing to note how quickly this invention put me on the very pinnacle of fame.
Had it been anything else but a killing machine, very little would have been said of it.
