Collectors, military historians and shooting entusiasts alike will welcome this comprehensive and long overdue treatise on the world's first automatic machine gun - Sir Hiram Maxim's Gun. Presented in Collector Grade's usual in depth fashion the story begins with an interesting treatise on the origins of the Maxim name.Hiram 's birth and earlt life in rustic pre Civil War :New England, and the remarkable rise of this largely self- educated man to a position of celebrated prominence where his crowning touch , the invention of the electirc light, resulted in his being invited by a consortium of his competitors to go to Europe for ten years with the stipulation that "under no condition was he to make any new electrical inventions during that time." Maxim did just that. Settling in England the very dawn of the solid drawn cartrideg case era in the British military, he methodically researched the quick firing weapon then available

Devil's Paintbrush: Sir Hiram Maxim's Gun

Literature & Fiction

Goldsmith, Dolf L.

Genre Fiction

Collector Grade Pubns

367 pages, history of the development of machine guns and Sir Hiram Maxim's role in it, lots of bw illustrations

Devils Paintbrush

History

Military

Collector_Grade_Publications

Hardback book with dust cover. rare

The Grand Old Lady of No Man's Land: The Vickers Machinegun

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Collector Grade Publications, Incorporated

This is the fifth and final volume of Dolf Goldsmith’s Browning Machine Gun series. Volume V: Dolf’s Notebook ties it all together with hints and tips for working on Bronwing machine guns, all culled from Dolf’s 70 years of experience and experimentation with the weapons in question. And with over 300 pages and nearly 500 illustrations, many customers suggest buying two copies; one for your reading shelf... and one to get dirty with in the workshop. 307 pages, nearly 500 illustrations

The Browning Machine Gun: Volume 5: Dolf's Notebook

Chipotle Publishing

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