The Great War
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Select the photograph to enlarge it.Photo: H. D. Girdwood, Public domain

Weapons

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.

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Wikidata Q282352