Postcard of a photograph of Bluejackets with a Maxim gun
The Maxim was the first gun to use recoil energy to reload automatically after firing. It needed water cooling to cope with a high rate of fire and needed a team of men as seen here to operate it
Picture No
13744213
Media ID
45749951
Size
4684px x 3007px
(4.7MB)
Credit
© Holt's Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Publisher Picture Postcard Co Ltd
Date
1901
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