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Maxim gun,

An automatic gun, the invention of Hiram S. Maxim. It consists of a single barrel mounted on a tripod and fires but a single shot at a time, but with such rapidity that the United States ordnance department, on a test experiment in rapidity, fired 2,004 shots in [146] one minute forty-five seconds. At the same time, in a test for accuracy, out of 334 shots fired at a target 12 × 26 feet at a distance of 300 yards, 268 hits were made. The gun works itself after the first shot is fired until the cartridges in the belt or magazine are exhausted. See explosives.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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