The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in the 1880s by Hiram Maxim, it used recoil energy to fire automatically, ...

Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first ...

The Maxim machine gun was first introduced to significant combat by the U.S. Army during World War I. In 1912, each regiment received four of these machine guns, believing this quantity would be ...

The Browning M2 entered U.S. service in 1921 and remains operational today despite predating jets, radar, helicopters, and modern armored warfare. U.S. military attempts to replace the M2 repeatedly ...