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Bedwars (stylized as BedWars) is a game developed by Easy.gg based on the fanmade Minecraft minigame of the same name. [160] Similar to the original version, players defend their bed from other opponents while attempting to destroy other player's beds. [161] [162] Unlike the Minecraft version, the game has more weapons to use. [160]
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. [15]The Maxim gun has been called "the weapon most associated with imperial conquest" by historian Martin Gilbert, [16] and was heavily used by colonial powers during the "Scramble for Africa".
Sir Hiram Maxim showing his Extra Light gun in Germany in April 1895. Maxim M1895 cavalry gun, complete with a detached tripod carried on the back of a single soldier. With a mass of only 44.5 pounds (20 kg), it was the only complete machine gun at the time that could be carried by one man.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. [1] Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons , a mousetrap , and steam pumps .
Maxim gun: Maxim Gun Company, Vickers: 7.70×56mmR (known as .303 British) Ammunition belt United Kingdom: 1883 Maxim-Tokarev: Tula Arms Plant: 7.62×54mmR: Ammunition belt Soviet Union: 1923 McCrudden light machine rifle (Did not enter production) 7.70×56mmR (known as .303 British) Detachable box magazine Australia: 1919 Mendoza C-1934 ...
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Between 1891 and 1894 Switzerland procured 72 heavy machine guns, designated MG 94, [1] from Maxim and Nordenfelt in London. [2] These weapons were issued to fortress troops [3] and mountain troops and were operational until 1944 as spare arms with the Territorial Battalion. The MG 94 was mounted at the front end and at the rear on the knees of ...
Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun.Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb), as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899.