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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.
		Maxim's first company to manufacture the gun had as its chairman Albert Vickers and would later be taken over by Vickers, leading first to the Maxim-Vickers then, after Vickers' redesign, the Vickers machine gun.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Maxim_gun (963 words)

	Machine Gun - Military History Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heavy guns such as the Vickers machine gun were joined by many other machine weapons, which mostly had their start in the early 20th century.
		Machine guns were mounted in aircraft for the first time in World War I. Firing through a moving propeller was solved in a variety of ways, including the interrupter gear, metal reinforcement of the propeller or simply avoiding the problem with wing mounted guns.
		In the future, electronically controlled machine guns with ultra-high rates of fire may see use in some applications, although current small-caliber weapons of this type have found little use: they are too light for anti-vehicle use, but too heavy (especially with the need to carry a tactically useful amount of ammunition) for individual soldiers.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Machine_Gun (2099 words)

	Four Finnish Maxim Type Machine Guns
		Maxim type machine guns inherited from the Imperial Russian Army were used by both sides during Finland's War of Independence in 1918.
		The konekivääri m/09-09 (Machine Gun Model 09-09) was in fact a Russian PM 1905 or PM 1910 mounted on a Sokolov carriage.
		The gun commander was responsible for observation and correction of firing, the gunner did the firing, the assistant loaded the belt into the gun and guided it during firing.
	www.saunalahti.fi /~ejuhola/7.62/maxims.html (3102 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)

	Machine Gun Science Projects, Machine Gun, In 1865 the French officer Reffye invented a machine gun with a total of 25 ...
		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.
		This machine, known as the multiple cannon (1450), is one of the earliest ancestors of the machine gun.
		Later the firing of the machine gun was synchronized with the propeller.
	www.4to40.com /earth/science/index.asp?article=earth_science_machinegun (487 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Hiram Maxim
		Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), an inveterate inventor who designed the machine gun bearing his name, was born on 5 February 1840 in Maine, USA the eldest son of a mechanic.
		Moving to London Maxim began to toy with the problems associated with the design and manufacture of automatic weapons, from which resulted his most famous innovation; in 1884 he unveiled the Maxim Machine Gun.
		Maxim successfully sold his new weapon to the British army, although there were many in the army's high command who could not foresee a practical use for the weapon in a war of movement (although it was used to impressive effect by the British during the Matabele war in 1893-94).
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/maxim.htm (416 words)

	History of the machine-gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once the gun was loaded a single percussion cap was placed on a nipple on the iron frame and fired by a hammer, the flash passing through the frame to ignite all 24 cartridges.
		Maxim used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next bullet.
		The gun was first used by Britain`s colonial forces in the Matabele war in 1893-94.
	www.pledgeco.com /inventions/machine-gun.htm (808 words)

	Machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Machine guns tend to share a very high ratio of caliber to barrel length (a long barrel for a small caliber).
		On externally powered machine guns, such as miniguns, an electronic button or trigger on a joystick is commonly used.
		Lighter machine guns, such as light and medium machine guns often have a butt stock attached, while mounted and tripod mounted machine guns usually have spade grips.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Machine-gun (4105 words)

	Maxim 7.92mm Maschinegewehr M/08 German HMG
		The German 08 model of the popular Maxim system machine gun, was the basic German machine gun of the World War I, and also the most widespread model of Maxim MG in the world.
		It was primarily used as a Heavy Machine Gun, on a heavy four-leg sledge-like mount.
		Instead of guns defending only the areas directly in front their position, the ideal was to construct a series of interlocking fire zones, in order to provide a sort of wall of fire that was connected to neighbouring MG Companies.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /maxim_m08_mg_info.htm (414 words)

	The Finnish Maxim Machine Guns
		While the Maxim Machine Gun is often associated with Russia or the Soviet Union, its history is also deeply connected with the nation of Finland.
		While they knew the Maxim was a fine machine gun they did foresee problems with the wheeled mounts, as they felt these mounts were not the best option for the forest and swampy terrain of Finland.
		The strongest point of the Maxim may be its role in defensive as it is without a doubt one of the greatest machine guns ever made for use in defensive positions.
	www.mosinnagant.net /finland/finnish_maxims_from_mosin.asp (4260 words)

	Sources-Robert Howard Gamble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Maxim moved to London and over the next few years worked on producing an effective machine-gun.
		Maxim's gun used the energy of each bullet's recoil to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next.
		The Maxim Gun would fire continuously until the entire belt of bullets was used up, cooling the gun's barrel with circulating water.
	www.cstone.net /~rgamble/users/MachineGun.htm (191 words)

	The Maxim Machine Gun Guns Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Maxim Machine Gun in WWI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	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.
		By the time the machine had covered 900 ft of track, it lifted off and covered a further 100 ft before a structure failure in the framework brought it down with a thud, damaging both the machine and the guard rail.
	www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /technology/engin_maxim.shtml (1087 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.
		Probably because of the difficulty of transporting the heavy guns and ammunition over long distances on foot, which was often their only available method.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/mghvruss.htm (414 words)

	Maxim Gun
		The Maxim Machine-Gun was adopted by the British Army in 1889.
		The German Army's Maschinengewehr and the Russian Pulemyot Maxima were both based on Maxim's invention.
		In 1912 the British Army transferred its loyalties to the Vickers Gun and lighter Lewis Gun.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWmaximgun.htm (306 words)

	Customization Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The round plate the machine gun mount is attached to is from the bottom of one of the German mines that came with the Hasbro D-Day Accessory boxed set.
		These are (along with the prongs on the bottom of the Maxim) are from the tripod that originally came with the machine gun.
		The machine gun was very low slung - so you either used it laying down on your stomach, ratcheted the towing handle up so it elevated the machine gun put it on top of something (like rocks or sandbags), or you sat in a trench and fired it (see here and here for examples)
	members.aol.com /mxs3/custom/maxim/maxim.htm (642 words)

	Making the Modern World - Sir Hiram Maxim
		The son of a farmer, Maxim was apprenticed to a coachmaker.
		Maxim's other inventions included smokeless gunpowder, a re-setting mousetrap, a hair-curling iron, a pneumatic gun and a plane.
		His Maxim Gun Co. was eventually absorbed into Vickers Ltd. Maxim became a British subject in 1900 and was knighted in 1901.He died in 1916 and did not witness the carnage wrought by the then commonplace machine gun during the First World War.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0084 (260 words)

	FLYING MACHINES - Hiram Stevens Maxim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hiram Maxim made a fortune from his invention of the Maxim machine gun, and he used a good bit of that fortune to explore heavier-than-air flight.
		Maxim began his aerial experiments at Baldwyns Park, England, in the late 1880's, leading to the construction in 1893 of his enormous biplane Test-Rig, which weighed about 7,000 pounds.
		On the Maxim Biplane Test-Rig's third test run, on July 31, 1894, with Maxim and a crew of three aboard, it lifted with such force that it broke the reinforced restraining track and careened for some 200 yards, at times reaching an altitude of 2 or 3 feet above the damaged track.
	www.flyingmachines.org /maxm.html (260 words)

	Machine Guns Portal @ MiniMachineGun.com (Mini Machine Gun) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The United States Coast Guard have started to patrol the Great Lakes with machine guns mounted on their vessels and are conducting live-ammunition training...
		The Coast Guard proclaimed that machine guns on its' patrol boats do not break the treaty that was signed after the War of 1812 which has helped guarantee...
		The weapons involved various machine guns, sniper rifles and ammunition that were allegedly intended to go to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil, or LTTE.
	www.minimachinegun.com (1845 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - South African War - The Maxim .303 Machine Gun
		One of 2 RCRI's two Maxim guns in camp in South Africa, mounted on its Dundonald Galloping Carriage, with limber.
		Designed by the American-born inventor, Sir Hiram Maxim, it was the first machine gun to operate entirely by mechanical means.
		The Canadian Maxims taken to South Africa were mounted on a lightweight "Dundonald Galloping Carriage," consisting of a steel frame and trail, large wooden wheels with steel rims, and an armoured shield to protect the gun crew.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/boer/maximmachinegun_e.html (253 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Armory: Guns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The gun could be broken down into two pieces for transport.
		British motorized machine gun battery near the Somme.
		First weight is gun weight followed by accessory type and weight.
	www.worldwar1.com /arm005.htm (88 words)

	FLYING MACHINES - Hiram Stevens Maxim
		Hiram Maxim, who was born at Brockway's Mills, Maine, made a fortune from his invention of the Maxim machine gun, and he used a good bit of that fortune to explore heavier-than-air flight.
		After moving to England in 1881, Maxim began his aerial experiments at Baldwyns Park, England, in the late 1880's, leading to the construction in 1893 of his enormous biplane Test-Rig, which weighed about 7,000 pounds.
		Hiram Maxim designed and built a biplane in 1910 but it was unsuccessful.
	www.flyingmachines.org /maxim.html (382 words)

	No. 694: Hiram Maxim
		He was there to sell his new Maxim machine gun to the Czar.
		This "Maxim Gun" fired 666 rounds a minute, and it changed warfare.
		The Russo-Japanese War was a storm warning of the slaughter we'd see a decade later in WW-I. The Maxim Guns (and nastier guns that followed) made Maxim's name.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi694.htm (494 words)

	Machine Gun reviewed on Maxim Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Machine Gun explores this fearsome technological innovation and its effect on our history in playing roles as varied as military bully and mob enforcer.
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		MAXIM TO GO is a trademark owned by Felix Dennis.
	www.maximonline.com /entertainment/reviews.aspx?p_id=1938 (161 words)

	DELTA GREEN 1939-1945 : EQUIPMENT : MACHINE GUNS : Maxim Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1884, Hiram Maxim demonstrated what would be the world's first machine gun, and following some minor changes in 1885, this model would go on to become the most common design in service with virtually all military forces well into the 1930s.
		The Germans adopted their own version of the Maxim in 1908, and the MG08 was remained in use till 1941.
		The Soviets also had Maxim guns in their arsenal when the war began, preferring to mount their Maxims on wheeled chassis (as pictured above).
	home.comcast.net /~furrylogic/maxim.html (174 words)

	Japanese Airplanes Shot Down at Pearl Harbor
		We ran to the armory and he grabbed the antiquated Maxim machine gun we used for training.
		The cook kept firing till the gun was too hot to hold and burnt his hands.
		In 1917, 2 days after the United States declared war, General Crozier, Chief, Ordnance Department, authorized the purchase of 4,000 Vickers-Maxim machine guns, since there was not a single machine gun in the country suitable for use on the European front.
	www.abcog.org /maxim.htm (1606 words)

	Machine Gun Military Article Photocopies
		The Gardner gun - Parts - The barrels - The casing - The bolts, 346.
		Functioning and care of the caliber 0.22 machine gun: Feed block, Barrel assemby, Bolt group, Chamber group, General precautions.
		The MG 42, Table of Characterisitics, Method of Operation, Construction, Use as Light Machine Gun, Use as Heavy Machine Gun, Use as Antiaircraft Machine Gun, Possible Use in Armored Vehicles.
	www.military-info.com /Aphoto/Subjectlist/A060i.htm (1628 words)

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