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Hiram Maxim. Other earlier rapid fire guns, such as the Gatling Gun, were not true machine guns.
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Inventor of machine gun?
Hiram Maxim
Who is the inventor of machine gun?
Hiram Maxim
Who was the inventor of the machine gun?
Hiram Maxim
Who Machine gun inventor?
Sir Hiram Maxim.
Who was Gatling gun named after?
The inventor of the Gatling gun was Richard Jordan Gatling. The machine gun- like weapon was named after the inventor. He invented it in 1862.
Which country introduced machine gun?
It was an American inventor, Dr. Richard J who also invented the gataling gun
Who is the first inventor of machine?
Cavemen, the wheel.
Did Hiram Stevens Maxim get a Nobel Prize?
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.
Who created the machine gun?
The first machine gun was the Defense Gun, invented by James Puckle in England in 1718. It was a single barrel flintlock gun with multiple revolving chambers. It was operated by a hand crank. The intended use was repelling boarders on ships. The Puckle gun was not used very widely and failed commercially. An American inventor, Dr. Richard J. Gatling, invented in 1861 and patented in 1862 the hand-cranked multibarrel gun that can be considered the first cartridge machine gun. It was used in the American Civil War. The first commercially successful self-operating machine gun was invented by another American, who later emigrated to England, Hiram Stevens Maxim. Maxim formed a company to produce his gun in 1896. This company later became Vickers. Maxim's design was highly successful and found many buyers. The Maxim gun (Vickers gun in England) saw service on all sides of WWI and many conflicts around the world afterwards.
First full automatic gun?
While some would say the Gatling gun was the first,I consider the Maxim machine gun the first true full auto machine gun.
Where was the first machine gun made?
The first true machine gun was invented by Hiram Maxim in the United Kingdom.
What was the first full auto gun?
the Maxim machinegunMaxim machine gun.
