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Maxim and Gun
The modern trigger-actuated machine gun began with various designs developed in the late 1800s and fielded in World War I, such as the Maxim gun, Lewis Gun, and MG 08 " Spandau ".
The Maxim Nordenfeldt Gun and Ammunition Factory was also a major employer, until taken over by the Vickers Company in 1897.
Unlike much heavier air-cooled and water-cooled machine guns ( such as the Hotchkiss machine gun and the various belt-fed Maxim gun derivatives ), and in common with the Lewis Gun, the Chauchat was not designed for sustained defensive fire.
Maxim established the Maxim Gun Company with financing from Albert Vickers, son of steel entrepreneur Edward Vickers.
* Handbook of the Maxim Automatic Machine Gun, caliber. 30, model of 1904, with pack outfits and accessories.
He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun – and an elaborate mousetrap.
American inventor Hiram Percy Maxim ( not to be confused with Hiram Stevens Maxim, Hiram Percy's father, and the inventor of the Maxim Machine Gun ), is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful models circa 1902 ( patented 30 March 1909 ).
Until the start of World War I, the Army had used a variety of older machine guns like the M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun " Potato Digger " ( which Browning had also designed ) and weapons like the Maxim Gun, the Benet-Mercies M1909, and the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
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Brockhaus and Efron
The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.
The Jewish Encyclopedia was heavily used as a source by the 16-volume Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian, published by Brockhaus and Efron in Saint Petersburg between 1906 and 1913.
The Russian Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, in its 1890-1907 edition, classified Pomors as Great Russians or referred to them as Russian traders and trappers of the North.
According to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary that word has derived from the Old Germanic Witing.
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона ) ( 35 volumes, small ; 86 volumes, large ).
According to Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Shamakhi had 20008 inhabitants ( 10450 males and 9558 females ); of them Russians 3 %, Armenians 18 %, and Azerbaijani Tatars 79 %.
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary notes that according to legend the city of Nakhchivan was founded by Noah, and the date of the town on the Persian sources in 1539 BC.
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* For the " Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary " ( 1861 – 1863 ) he penned a number of articles on geography and history.
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary writes that by the end of the 19th century a sloboda was a large village with more than one church, a marketplace, and volost administration, or a village-type settlement of industrial character, where the peasants have little involvement in agriculture.
According to Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, at that time the town of Yerevan had seven Shia mosques.
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