Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in ...

In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first ...

In 1718, British inventor James Puckle patented what may have been the world's first machine gun - a tripod-mounted, hand-cranked flintlock with a revolving cylinder that could fire multiple shots ...