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Watch what happened when the first machine gun appeared in war

The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in ...
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This Gun Was One of the Very First Machine Guns

In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first ...