By the development and manufacture of lighter, air cooled machine guns.
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The Maxim gun was invented by invented by the American-born British Inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884.
A Maxim Gun in Action - 1897 was released on: USA: October 1897
Hiram Maxim invented the Hiram machine gun
Maxim Firing Field Gun - 1897 was released on: USA: November 1897
Machine gun is a much broader category, which includes both current and obsolete models. The Maxim gun is a specific type of machine gun, and an obsolete one, at that.
Hiram Maxim
Hiram Maxim
Hiram Maxim
1844
No, Hiram Stevens Maxim did not receive a Nobel Prize. He was a British-American inventor known for inventing the Maxim gun, which was the first portable fully automatic machine gun.
The first self powered machine gun ever made was called the Maxim gun made by Hiram Maxim in 1884. The precursor to the Maxim gun was the Gatling gun which required physical operation rather than truly "automatic." So in regards to how long it took: A long time.