World War II saw the introduction of many weapons. Perhaps the most characteristic among them was the submachine gun.

The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in the 1880s by Hiram Maxim, it used recoil energy to fire automatically, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did Roman soldiers under General Lucius Cornelius Sulla use the world's first machine gun in their siege to subdue the rebel city ...

Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...