- 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. The...
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machine gun, the
Maxim gun.
Maxim held
patents on
numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and
steam pumps.
Maxim laid
claim to...
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Examples include the
Maxim machine gun and M1917
Browning machine gun. The
modern definition refers to "heavy caliber"
machine guns,
pioneered by the German...
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machine gun (HMG)
which served as the
standard HMG of the
Imperial German Army
during World War I. It was an
adaptation of
Hiram Maxim's 1884
Maxim gun design...
- romanized: ****myot
Maksima obraztsa 1910 goda, lit. '
Maxim's machine gun Model 1910'), or PM M1910, is a
heavy machine gun that was used by the
Imperial Russian Army...
- Look up
maxim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Maxim or
Maksim may
refer to:
Maxim (magazine), an
international men's
magazine Maxim (Australia), the...
- Joey
Maxim from the
Maxim gun, the world's
first self-acting
machine gun,
based on his
ability to
rapidly throw a
large number of left jabs.
Maxim was...
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quite heavy, being, essentially,
heavy machine guns. When
Hiram Maxim developed his recoil-powered
machine gun that used a
single barrel, the
first main design...
- more." The
Vickers machine gun was
based on the
successful Maxim gun of the late 19th century.
After purchasing the
Maxim company outright in 1896, Vickers...
- was the
brother of
Hiram Maxim,
inventor of the
Maxim gun and
uncle of
Hiram Percy Maxim,
inventor of the
Maxim Silencer.
Maxim started his
career in 1881...
