THIS WEEK IN... 1884

摘要

Invented by Sir Hiram Maxim, this brutal weapon was the world's first self-powered machine gun. 'When loaded and fired it continues the process of loading and firing and feeding itself as long as a supply of cartridges is presented to it,' wrote The Engineer.rnWhat set the gun apart from existing machine guns, such as the Gatling, was an innovative mechanism that used the energy from the recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next one.