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    This document provides an overview of Hiram Maxim and his invention of the modern machine gun in the late 1800s. It discusses Maxim's early life and work, his development of an automatic recoil-operated machine gun in 1884-1885, and the widespread adoption of the Maxim gun by militaries around the world in the late 1800s. It also summarizes Maxim's marketing of the gun and how it came to be widely used in colonial wars of the late 1800s and 1900s as well as the massive casualties caused by machine guns in World War I.

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    This document provides an overview of Hiram Maxim and his invention of the modern machine gun in the late 1800s. It discusses Maxim's early life and work, his development of an automatic recoil-operated machine gun in 1884-1885, and the widespread adoption of the Maxim gun by militaries around the world in the late 1800s. It also summarizes Maxim's marketing of the gun and how it came to be widely used in colonial wars of the late 1800s and 1900s as well as the massive casualties caused by machine guns in World War I.

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    NDIA International Small Arms Symposium, Exhibition &

    Firing Demo
    2008

    Hiram Maxim and His Machinegun:


    A great force harnessed to a useful purpose

    By Stephen C. Small, Ph.D.


    as of 1500hrs 13 May 08

    Agenda

    The Early Years


    His Automatic Machinegun
    Marketing the Maxim Machinegun
    Colonial Wars
    Ordnance Department Tests
    20th Century Warfare
    The Human Cost
    Summary

    The Early Years

    The Young Inventor at The


    United States Electric Lighting Co.

    Embarks for Europe

    His Automatic Machinegun

    Cannot this great force be harnessed


    to a useful purpose?

    1884: The Initial Attempt

    1885: The First Recoil-Operated


    Machinegun

    The principle

    Marketing the Maxim Machinegun

    1888: The Testing of the Maxim


    by U.S. Army

    Prototype Maxim Machinegun

    Gatling Gun

    The U.S. Navy


    Adopts the Maxim Pom-pom Gun

    1893: Maxim sold his new weapon


    to the British Army

    The Prince of Wales

    The Russian Army

    Kaiser William II
    This is the gun; there is no other!

    An International Best Seller

    knighthood from Queen Victoria

    Colonial Wars and Insurgences

    1893: The Matabele War

    1898 - The Battle of Omdurman

    1899 - Philippine Insurrection

    The Ordnance Dept. Tests


    Machineguns

    The U.S. Ordnance Dept. Tests


    the Maxim Gun - Again

    U.S. Army Chief of Ordnance,


    Brigadier General Buffington

    John M. Browning

    1909: The Benet-Mercie


    Machine-Rifle

    1913: U.S. Army Selects a


    Maxim Vickers

    Platform Mounted Maxim


    Machinegun

    Platform Mounted Maxim


    Machinegun

    20th Century Warfare

    1904-5: The Russo-Japanese War

    World War I

    Strengthened Defense

    The Engineers War

    Filling The Water Jacket

    Aircraft and Anti-Aircraft Maxims

    1917: America Enters


    World War I

    Americans & The Chauchat


    Machinegun

    Hotchkiss 8mm M1914


    Machinegun

    Browning M1917 Machinegun

    1917-18: American Machinegun


    Production

    The Human Cost

    1916 The Battle of the Somme

    Summary

    Questions?

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