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... 35 KB (3,506 words) - 02:51, 22 April 2024 |
He 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... 6 KB (693 words) - 19:08, 6 April 2024 |
MG 08 (redirect from Maxim MG'08) standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war... 37 KB (4,573 words) - 13:16, 8 April 2024 |
1981), Romanian football player Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first machine gun Hiram Percy Maxim (1869–1936), founder of the American... 785 bytes (149 words) - 08:16, 19 September 2022 |
QF 1-pounder pom-pom (redirect from Maxim Flak M14) light anti-aircraft gun. Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun. Its longer range... 21 KB (2,289 words) - 20:23, 12 January 2024 |
Leavitt Lake Hiram Lowry (1843–1924), Chinese educator and Methodist clergyman Hiram Mather (1796–1868), American lawyer and politician Hiram Maxim (1840–1916)... 11 KB (1,455 words) - 09:01, 10 January 2024 |
Vickers Limited (redirect from Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Ltd) subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns And Ammunitions Company at the same time, to become Vickers, Sons & Maxim. When Sir Hiram Maxim retired in 1911... 16 KB (1,894 words) - 19:43, 9 April 2024 |