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	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Machine Guns
		Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.
		As the war developed machine guns were adapted for use on tanks on broken ground, particularly on the Western Front (where the majority of machine guns were deployed).
		Light machine guns were adopted too for incorporation into aircraft from 1915 onwards, for example the Vickers, particularly with the German adoption of interrupter equipment, which enabled the pilot to fire the gun through the aircraft's propeller blades.
	www.firstworldwar.com /weaponry/machineguns.htm (1049 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: MG 08
		The MG08, like the Maxim Gun, operated on the basis of a toggle lock; once cocked and fired the MG08 would continue firing rounds until the trigger was released.
		In single-turret tanks 7TP, the MG was mounted in gun's shield, and its water radiator was protected with armoured cylinder (in single-turret 7TP the MG was fired by a pedal).
		Note: Barrels on the Maxim '08 and the Maxim 08/15 is the same and interchangeable with the exception that barrels fitted to 08/15s have a sleeve threaded on the muzzle end.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/MG-08 (1073 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Maxim Machine Gun
		The Maxim Gun was water-cooled (via a jacket around the barrel which held approximately one gallon) and fed from fabric belts; the German version of the gun, the Maschinengewehr, utilised 250-round belts.
		The whole was mounted on a sledge which, although heavy - 1914 machine guns weighed from 40-60kg - did enable the gun to be carried in the manner of a stretcher.
		Maxim triumphantly demonstrated his new invention to, firstly, the British Army - he had moved to London shortly before developing the machine gun - in 1885.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mgun_maxim.htm (346 words)

	Maxim gun Information
		The Maxim gun played a major role in the swift European colonization of Africa in the late 19th century.
		A picture of the period depicts a Maxim gun mounted on tachanka, a horse-drawn carriage along with the gunner, firing backwards at a pursuing White Army regiment.
		The Vickers machine gun was produced for export available in most of the different calibres and cartridges used by countries around the world, and including a large caliber (.50 inch) as used on Royal Navy warships.
	www.bookrags.com /Maxim_gun (725 words)

	Unimaps.com - The Maxim Gun
		The Maxim machine gun was grudingly adopted by the British Army in 1890 -the men signing the cheques preferred the slash and dash of the cavalry, this lead was eagerly followed by most other European nations.
		According to often quoted sources, the Maxim was first used to devastating effect in the Anglo-Matabele war of 1893-94, where in one encounter, the murderous Maxim gun cut down 5,000 Matabele warriors armed only with ancient muzzle loading rifles, spears and the belief that this was their homeland that they were protecting.
		The Maxim gun mounted on a Dunonald gun carriage.
	unimaps.com /maxim/index.html (677 words)

	Machine Gun - MSN Encarta
		The 30-mm Gatling gun on the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft can fire 3,900 rounds a minute and is capable of destroying armored targets such as tanks.
		Maxim guns were built in many sizes and were used extensively during World War I. John Moses Browning developed the world’s first practical gas-operated machine gun in 1895.
		The gun was air cooled, had a simplified belt feed, and was lighter and had fewer parts than the Maxim gun.
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	Maxim gun - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whilst its predecessors, such as the Gatling and Gardner guns had a manual crank to power the mechanism for loading, firing and ejecting their cartridges, the Maxim gun used energy from its ammunition.
		The Maxim gun played a major role in the swift European colonization of Africa in the late 19th century.
		Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, and carbon filaments for light bulbs.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Maxim_gun (501 words)

	Maxim gun
		Whilst its predecessors, such as the Gatling and Gardner guns had a manual crank to power the mechanism for loading, firing and ejecting their cartridgess, the Maxim gun used energy from its ammunition.
		Invented by American Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) in 1885, it used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next one.
		On the Western Front, 90 per cent of bullet related casualties were inflicted by Maxim-type guns, including the Vickers machine gun which was an improved and redesigned Maxim introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remained in service until 1968.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/ma/maxim_gun.html (496 words)

	Bambooweb: Maxim Gun
		The Maxim gun was the first effective machine gun portable enough to be used in warfare.
		Compared to modern machine guns, the Maxim was extremely bulky and awkward, typically requiring a four to six man team to operate it.
		Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, the gun silencer (adapted for car exhausts), a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, and carbon filaments for light bulbs.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/m/a/Maxim_Gun.html (374 words)

	Air Force Link - Sir Hiram Maxim
		Maxim, a powerful and imposing man, with a beard that gave him the look of a Biblical prophet, was broadly interested in all areas of invention.
		Maxim's gun business made him a wealthy man, so much so that he was able to devote considerable amounts of his fortune to aeronautical experiments.
		This was Maxim's moment; as he recalled later, "I found myself floating in the air with the feeling of being in a boat." But instead of adding power and remaining aloft, he cut power and descended to earth.
	www.af.mil /history/sirhirammaxim.asp (507 words)

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		A prototype of the Maxim gun was given by Hiram Maxim to and employed by the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in 1886-1890, under the leadership of Henry Morton Stanley.
		A picture of the period depicts a Maxim gun mounted on tachanka, a horse-drawn carriage along with the gunner, firing backwards at a pursuing White Army regiment.
		Earlier Maxims had been chambered for earlier British service cartridges, but the Vickers was produced for export available in most of the different calibres and cartridges used by countries around the world, and including a large caliber (.50 inch) as used on Royal Navy warships.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Maxim_gun (1174 words)

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		The "Maxim gun" used the recoil energy of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs.
		Maxim's other great innovation was the use of water cooling (via a water jacket around the barrel) to reduce overheating.
		Maxim's gun was widely adopted and derivative designs were used on all sides during the First World War.
	www.lycos.com /info/machine-gun--light-machine-gun.html (472 words)

	Hiram Maxim
		Maxim used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next bullet.
		The Maxim Machine-Gun was adopted by the British Army in 1889.
		Before his death in 1916 Hiram Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, the gun silencer (subsequently adapted for car exhausts), a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, carbon filaments for light bulbs and a flying machine.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWmaxim.htm (404 words)

	Sir Arthur Keith + Sir Hiram Maxim
		Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, carbon filaments for light bulbs, a gun silencer and a flying machine.
		The Maxim gun was adopted by the British Army in 1889 after an initial rejection, and variations were used by other European militaries.
		Maxim was a naturalized British subject and was knighted in 1901 by Queen Victoria for his inventions.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0205b-almanac.htm (491 words)

	7.62mm Model 1910 Maxim, Russian Model SPM
		This was the best gun the CCF had in during the 1st year of the Korean War.
		American forces used the light and heavy machine guns mostly at a few hundred yards or less, contrary to their design concepts.
		Maxim used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next bullet.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/mghvruss.htm (414 words)

	Maxim Machine Gun in WWI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Maxim system would ultimately be one of the most successful weapons of the era and continue to be used well into the latter half of the 20th Century.
		Maxim's automatic rifle system, or Machine Gun, consisted of a water cooled, belt fed automatic rifle that fired a standard infantry type cartridge as long as the trigger was depressed or ammunition was in the feed mechanism.
		The Maxim Machine Gun was to dominate the battlefields of the Great War however the German application proved to be one of the most significant impacts on modern warfare and revolutionize tactics on the battlefields of the 20th Century.
	www.glennhyatt.com /usmcguns/mgartl1.htm (426 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916)
		On the Maxim Biplane's third test run, on July 31, 1894, with Maxim and a crew of three aboard, the engines and boilers were coaxed to deliver greater and greater pressure until, when exceeding 42 mph, the whole structure took to the air.
		Maxim's intention was, before attempting free flight, to get as much data as possible regarding the conditions under which flight must be obtained, by what is known in these days as 'taxi-ing'--that is, running the propellers at sufficient speed to drive the machine along the ground without actually mounting into the air.
		Maxim, 150 horse power are expended in slip, 133 horse power in actual lift on the aeroplanes, and 80 horse power in driving the machine, with its frames and wires, through the air.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/maxim.html (7311 words)

	Maxim, Hiram Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine, and spent his early life in various apprenticeships.
		The Maxim gun of 1884 used the recoil from the shots to extract, eject, load, and fire cartridges.
		Maxim's first patent, when he was 26, was for a curling iron.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Maxim/1.html (219 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dolf L. Goldsmith - Devil's Paintbrush: Sir Hiram Maxim's Gun at Epinions.com
		Maxim adapted his machinegun to smokeless ammunition and it was adopted worldwide, serving in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 and arming both sides of the battlefield in World War I. It is estimated that 90% of the bullet inflicted casualties of the Great War were caused by the Maxim Gun.
		The Maxim Gun is belt fed, water cooled, and is characterized by a water jacket that surrounds the barrel.
		The Maxim gun originally had a crew of five, several of which were necessary to haul the large amounts of ammo it consumed.
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	The Maxim Machine Gun Guns Magazine - Find Articles
		This, however, was to change dramatically as a result of the adoption of Maxim guns by rival powers and by battlefield reports from German observers to British colonial expeditions in Africa and India.
		The first widespread use of the Maxim gun by the German army came in 1901 as a result of a licensing agreement for production of the gun in Germany by the firm that was to become Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) of Berlin.
		The grisly effect the Maxim had on the massed infantry and cavalry assaults of the early months of the war was almost unimaginable.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_6_46/ai_62370184 (870 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- Woke up this morning, got myself a...
		All the preceding references to violence and the rule of the gun, as the underlying maxim (pun intended) of the politics of empire and survival, and even basic human interactions, emphasize an immemorial recognition of the fact that bullets speak loudly, a lot louder than indignant self-righteousness or moral outrage.
		The emphasis on the gun as the symbol of power and preeminence in any realm is lent further philosophical strength, by the much bandied about statement attributed to Chairman Mao, which asserts that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".
		It is after all, the gun that established European Imperialism and stamped her authority unto the history books, and into the hearts and minds of conquered peoples, whether they liked it or not.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/onuora/060704.html (2449 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Hiram Maxim
		Maxim did and sold his machine guns to European countries on the eve of World War I, changing the nature of combat.
		Its precursor, the Gatling gun, was a hand-driven, crank-operated gun with first six, later ten, barrels and a maximum fire rate of 1,200 rounds per minute.
		Maxim's innovation was to harness the recoil power of each bullet, a force strong enough to eject the used cartridge and draw in the next one.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/maxim_lo.html (508 words)

	Maxim Machine Gun Model of 1908
		So that if the gun is tilted upward the inner tube slides to the rear of the jacket, closing off the steam entry hole at the back of the jacket and opening the steam entry hole at the forward end.
		As the gun fires, the recoil action of the barrel uses the energy of the rearward motion to cycle the gun through its firing sequence.
		Note: Barrels on the Maxim '08 and the Maxim 08/15 is the same and interchangeable with the exception that barrels fitted to 08/15s have a sleeve threaded on the muzzle end.
	glennhyatt.com /usmcguns/max_08.htm (2303 words)

	Dartford Technology: Engineering - Sir Hiram Maxim
		The gun was used in the Matabele War, in India, and by both sides in the Boer War.
		Maxim had developed an interest in flight and flying machines as early as 1856, but had not been able to further his ambitions in this field.
		Maxim needed a new base for the development and testing of his flying machine.
	www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /technology/engin_maxim.shtml (1087 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Armory: Guns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The gun could be broken down into two pieces for transport.
		British motorized machine gun battery near the Somme.
		The Germans would produce over 100,000 Maxims during the war.
	www.worldwar1.com /arm005.htm (88 words)

	Maxim gun definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Maxim gun definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		machine gun: an early single-barreled machine gun that was cooled by an outer casing containing water
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	Machine Gun Science Projects, Machine Gun, In 1865 the French officer Reffye invented a machine gun with a total of 25 ...
		The gun was based on an American model invented by Gatling, which could fire 100 missiles a minute.
		The machine gun has evolved through a variety of forms, but that used by the world's fighting forces today is a single-barreled automatic weapon.
		The Maxim gun marked a new era in the evolution of the weapon.
	www.4to40.com /earth/science/index.asp?article=earth_science_machinegun (487 words)

	Hiram Maxim - The first man to fly a heavier than air machine
		To each side of the centre section were placed wings, which Maxim termed 'aeroplanes' thus using the expression for the first time.
		That means that the Maxim flier moved forwards 2 feet as it descended from its stable (unrestrained) flight path.
		Heavier than Air flight is termed as "the ability of a vehicle to lift its own weight using its own power," The lifting of the flyer to engage the restraining rail nine inches higher shows without doubt that the vehicle was supporting its own weight and thus flying.
	www.bondle.co.uk /personal_pages/jon/maxim (1021 words)

	Reflex Suppressors for MG's.
		The tolerable sound of a suppressed Maxim 1910 in caliber 7.62x53R was not frightening at all, but pushing the stiff trigger demanded all the power at hand.
		The veteran MG carried the suppressor with its usual dignity, knowing that once a member of Maxim family was the first inventor to make a firearms silencer known around the world.
		These guns were among the most favoured weapons among the shooting participants and audience of the event.
	guns.connect.fi /rs/MG.html (366 words)

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