Plate 14 of 87 · Class II, Machine guns

Maxim gun

The first fully automatic machine gun, a recoil-operated weapon invented by Hiram Maxim in 1884. Its derivatives included the British Vickers, the Russian PM M1910 and the German MG 08, the water-cooled heavy machine gun adopted by the Imperial German Army in 1908.

Mentioned in

• Chapter X The Machinery of War §1 Rifles and Machine Guns

Sources

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_08
• collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war/type/rac-narrative-155

Wikidata Q282352