The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. [15] The Maxim gun has been called …

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2017年10月24日 · In just one battle during the 1893 Matabele War, Maxim guns cut down more than 1,600 warriors. Tribal leaders were so despondent by the lopsided defeat, they committed …

2025年2月19日 · Maxim machine gun, first fully automatic machine gun (q.v.), developed by engineer and inventor Hiram Maxim in about 1884, while he was residing in England. It was …

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. [1]

The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun, invented by the American-born [1] British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It has been called "the weapon most …

2022年3月10日 · The Maxim gun was a water-cooled, recoil-operated weapon that was designed to fire between 550 and 600 RPM. It was far more efficient than its predecessors, thanks to …

The Maxim was the first true self-powered machine gun*, a recoil-operated fully-automatic belt-fed weapon produced by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born inventor who moved to …

In 1885 he demonstrated the world's first automatic portable machine-gun to the British Army. Maxim used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the …

2015年12月30日 · Hiram Maxim with his initial 1885 prototype machine gun – note the rate of fire lever.