MAXIM, HIRAM STEVENS - THE AUTOMATIC MACHINE-GUN.Livre Rare Book
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188532138London, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1885. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Contained in the April issue of Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, pp.167-197, with 8 plates. The whole issue offered here. Custom cloth box with gilt leather title on spine.
188532138London Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1885. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Contained in the April issue of Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers pp.167-197 with 8 plates. The whole issue offered here. Custom cloth box with gilt leather title on spine. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Maxim's first announcement of his invention of the automatic machine-gun; using the energy from the recoil force to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one Maxim came up with the single-man operated machine-gun. Earlier types of machine-guns as the Gatling and Gardner consisted of multiple barrels and were powered by the manual turning of a crank which made them very heavy and caused them to require several men in order to operate them. The invention of the Maxim-mechanism allowed for a single-barrel construction and the new machine-gun could potentially be operated by just one man which thus led to the modern automatic machine-gun. Scarce. </em> hardcover