Hiram Maxim.
Hiram Maxim
the first rapid fire gun was the hand crannked gatling gun used in the civil war but the maxim was the first true machine gun which was developed not long after the gatling
The Vickers - machine gun - was developed based on the Maxim machine gun which was first real automatic machine gun. Vickers was an improvement and fired the .303 cartridge - extremely accurate and reliable. Used by British army during the first world war and following for many years.
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While some would say the Gatling gun was the first,I consider the Maxim machine gun the first true full auto machine gun.
The first true machine gun was invented by Hiram Maxim in the United Kingdom.
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The aircraft mounted machine gun was at first simply a ground machine mounted for a gunner to fire. All sides in WW1 used it. The first successful machine gun fired by a pilot was the Lewis machine gun on a special mounting attached to the top wing, allowing the gun to fire over the propellor.
Tommy gun
Ingram Mach 10? about 1977.
The first was the gatling gun invented in 1862