Maxim Gun
TypeMachine gun
OriginBritain/USA
Era1884
UsersHiram Maxim
About Maxim Gun
The first fully automatic machine gun, using recoil energy to reload. Could fire 600 rounds per minute. Devastating in colonial wars, Africans called it the devil grinder. Killed millions in WWI trench warfare. Hiram Maxim also invented the mouse trap.
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