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 ...
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 ...
The Maxim machine gun was first introduced to significant combat by the U.S. Army during World War I. In 1912, each regiment received four of these machine guns, believing this quantity would be ...
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 ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback