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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".
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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 .
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.
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The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893.. The design is based upon the Maxim gun's toggle lock mechanism. The pistol uses a locked breech and a short recoil operating cycle, with the barrel and breech moving backward together for a short distance before the breech is unlocked.
The Pulyemyot Maksima PM1910 (Russian: Пулемёт Максима образца 1910 года, romanized: Pulemyot Maksima obraztsa 1910 goda, lit. 'Maxim's machine gun Model 1910'), or PM M1910, is a heavy machine gun that was used by the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and World War II.
I would like to combine this page with Maxim gun, which is the more common term - swiping some details from this text as well as the picture of Maxim and putting them into the other article, then redirecting this page to that article.