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Key Point: It was the precursor to later more manageable heavy machine guns. World War I is often called “the machine gun war” because of the devastating use of automatic weapons such as the Maxim gun ...

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MR. HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM, the well-known American engineer, has lately brought out a new form of a machine-gun, which is attracting a great deal of attention in military and naval circles. This gun is ...