By October 1899 the Transvaal State Artillery had 73 guns, of which 59 of them were new, including four 155-mm Creusot fortress guns, and 25 37mm Maxim Nordenfeldt guns.

Maxim founded an armaments company with financial backing from Edward Vickers to produce his machine gun in Crayford, Kent, which later merged with Nordenfeldt.

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 ".

* Maxim PM1910 Machine Gun, Communists

Initially they used QF 1 pounder " pom-pom " ( a 37 mm version of the Maxim Gun ).

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.

Illustration of the Maxim Gun in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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.

* Soviet Manual Covering Operation and Repair of the 1910 Maxim Gun

Vickers bought out the Barrow-in-Furness shipbuilder The Barrow Shipbuilding Company in 1897, acquiring its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company.

Albert Vickers became the company's chairman, and it later joined hands with a Swedish competitor, Nordenfelt, to became Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company.

In 1897, Vickers & Sons bought the Barrow Shipbuilding Company and its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company, becoming Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Limited.

Under pressure from Rothschild and Vickers his company merged with Maxim's in 1888 to form The Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company.

Legal action followed ( Nordenfelt v Maxim, Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co Ltd ) over a non-compete clause Nordenfelt had signed.

A blue plaque on the Factory where Maxim invented and produced the gun is to be found in Hatton Garden at the junction with Clerkenwell Road in London.

The 7th season was sponsored by singer Alla Pugacheva, who had starred in a TV musical mocking the Star Factory, together with Maxim Galkin and Verka Serduchka.

An extreme example was in the Battle of Omdurman, in which a large army of Sudanese Mahdists armed in a traditional manner were destroyed by an Anglo-Egyptian force equipped with Maxim guns.

The Maxim gun, invented in 1884, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon.

The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.

The " Maxim gun " used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs such as the Nordenfelt and Gatling weapons.

In May, Stalin replaced his Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, who was regarded as pro-western and who was also Jewish, with Vyacheslav Molotov, allowing the Soviet Union more latitude in discussions with more parties, not only with Britain and France.

Maxim Rudometkin, while he was in prison, wrote a spiritual book that was smuggled out by close friends and relatives who came to visit him that become the basis of the Molokan faith.

Several parts of the book were altered during transcription, to make it appear as if Maxim Rudometkin was telling Molokans to pray through him, contrary to the bible.

In reality, Maxim Rudometkin was a fervent follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ, and never preached contrary to that.

Meant to be the culmination of previous show trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the Soviet Union and hand out her territories to Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

In 2000 and 2003, she was featured in Maxim.

She was featured in the annual Maxim " Hot 100 " list in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008 and in FHM < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s " 100 Sexiest Women " of 2005.

Wearing a black lace brassiere, she was on the cover of the December 2007 issue of Maxim magazine and was named Maxim magazine's 2008 Woman of the Year.

The first automatic weapon to fire a pistol round was a scaled-down version of the Maxim machine gun, used for demonstrations in marketing the Maxim in the late 19th century, especially when a full-sized firing range was not available.

The column was equipped with six Maxim machine guns, two 7-pounder mountain guns, and a 12½ pounder field piece.

Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3. 5 tons, with a 110-foot ( 34-meter ) wingspan that was powered by two 360-horsepower ( 270-kW ) steam engines driving two propellers.

The craft was uncontrollable, which Maxim, it is presumed, realized, because he subsequently abandoned work on it.

The next person to enter Zaharoff's story was Hiram Maxim.

The group also has a 50 % interest in Maxim ’ s, Hong Kong ’ s leading restaurant chain.

After the “ Placencia de Armas Co. Ltd ”; company, which swindled the Spanish Government selling useless and rather useless utility arms for Spain during the 1898 war ( also, this company, provided to Maxim outstanding and " sensitive " information that passed to his government during the conflict ), the Constructora Naval came and few years later, the Sociedad Española de Construcciones Navales, branch of Vickers in Spain were awarded, by the Spanish Government, the monopoly of the naval construction for the Spanish Navy.

Inventors Augustus Applegath, Sir Hiram Maxim and Jack Wall, inventor of the Crayford focuser, which is incorporated into many modern telescopes were also residents.

Also a large contribution to Sebastopol is " Easom's Hardware ", operated by the Easom family for many years, who also own Maxim Manufacturing on Hwy 21.

Erhardt also had a 12-pounder, while Vickers Maxim offered a 3-pounder and Schneider a 47 mm.

Maxim also extends their circulation by sending magazines to men that have requested to be removed from the subscription multiple times.

In 1908, Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, also known as Lenin, was hosted by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, also known as Maxim Gorky, a Russian, Soviet author, at his house near the Giardini Augusto.

The Maxim gun was also used in the Anglo-Aro War ( in present day Nigeria ) of 1901-1902.

* The Maxim gun also popularized tripods and belt-feed.

His brother, Hudson Maxim, was also a military inventor, specializing in explosives.

Keibler has also modeled, appearing in both Maxim and Stuff magazines.

Instrumentation amplifiers can be built with individual op-amps and precision resistors, but are also available in integrated circuit form from several manufacturers ( including Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Analog Devices, Linear Technology and Maxim Integrated Products ).

Conductor Maxim Shostakovich once lived in town, as did Time magazine owner Henry Luce and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, who was also a playwright and Congresswoman.

Maxim is also noted as the inventor of the " Maxim Silencer ", a suppressor for firearms ( patented in 1908 ) as well as of a silencer ( or muffler ) for gasoline engines.

Maxim recounted his days as an automobile pioneer in his book Horseless Carriage Days and also wrote the book Life's Place in the Cosmos, an overview of contemporary science that surmised life existed outside of earth.

In addition to literary criticism and biographies about such authors as Laurence Sterne, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, he wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works disguised as fiction, which also served as experiments in his developing theories of literature.

His brother Napoléon became professor of solfège at the Conservatoire, his brother Maxim had a career writing light music for Parisan theatres, and his sister Céleste was also a pianist.

The core development labs were located on an Intel site in Portland, OR, but there were also Siemens labs in Berlin, Germany, ( Sietec Systemtechnik, Maxim Ehrlich's team creating the Gemini DBMS ), Vienna, Austria, and also Nuremberg, Germany, involved in the development.

He changed his name to Maxim Litvinov, but was also known as Papasha and Maximovich.

Bristow also appeared in Maxim list of the Hottest Nerd Crushes.