Hiram Maxim posing with his invention, The Maxim Gun, the world’s first fully automatic machine gun (undated, c.1900) “760 shots per minute” [1352 x 850]

Comments

1. ColoradoAvalanche

   Whatever happens, we have got,
   the Maxim gun,
   and they have not

2. Sebastian__Earl

   And the French somehow still fucked it up.

3. orionjulius

   How many men were slaughtered with his invention? I wonder how he felt about that.