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 |
Machine gun (section Maxim and World War I) practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim. The Maxim machine gun used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet... 74 KB (9,129 words) - 19:01, 1 April 2024 |
two sons saw a photograph of American-born inventor Hiram Maxim (born 1840), creator of the Maxim gun; his superficial similarity to their father led... 7 KB (816 words) - 10:33, 8 January 2024 |
shopping street. Sir Hiram Maxim had a small factory at 57 Hatton Garden and in 1881, invented and started to produce the Maxim Gun, a prototype machine... 25 KB (3,274 words) - 21:31, 23 April 2024 |
that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, and Octave Chanute. Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3.5 tons, with a 110-foot (34 m) wingspan... 55 KB (6,348 words) - 20:28, 5 April 2024 |
Family, the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, which focuses on the relationship between Maxim and his father, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. The film was Myrna Loy's... 6 KB (728 words) - 23:21, 20 December 2023 |
out-and-back layout and creating a "racing" effect on two parallel tracks. Sir Hiram Maxims Captive Flying Machine is the oldest amusement park ride in Europe having... 75 KB (4,692 words) - 19:06, 30 April 2024 |
and/or rate of fire of a recoil operated firearm. It was invented by Hiram Maxim in 1894. The muzzle booster is distinct from the muzzle brake, which... 14 KB (2,018 words) - 17:14, 14 December 2023 |
forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s. In 1884, Hiram Maxim invented the Maxim gun, the first single-barreled machine gun. The world's first... 47 KB (5,731 words) - 16:03, 19 April 2024 |
PM M1910 (redirect from PM1910 Maxim) invasion of Ukraine. It was adopted in August 1910 and was derived from Hiram Maxim's Maxim gun, chambered for the standard Russian 7.62×54mmR rifle cartridge... 16 KB (1,456 words) - 05:06, 15 February 2024 |
one of the chamberings of the Maxim-Silverman 1896 Pistol, a self-loading pistol designed and patented by Hiram Maxim and his assistant Louis Silverman... 4 KB (418 words) - 03:50, 9 April 2024 |
Vickers, Schneider-Creusot, Krupp, and Škoda Works. Individuals include Hiram Maxim and Basil Zaharoff. Arms profits before and during World War I are compared... 7 KB (675 words) - 21:30, 2 March 2024 |
were also quite heavy, being, essentially, heavy machine guns. When Hiram Maxim developed his recoil-powered machine gun that used a single barrel, the... 15 KB (2,201 words) - 10:05, 6 February 2023 |