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It was invented in World war 1. In the United States, 1844. The mechanism of the Maxim gun employed one of the earliest recoil-operated firing systems in history.

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A gun based on his design became standard issue for the British Army during World War I, which became known as "the machine gun war." In 1884, Hiram Maxim built the first effective machine gun, which revolutionized warfare.

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At the Paris Exhibition in 1881, a man told Maxim that if he wanted to make a fortune, he should invent a machine that would help these Europeans kill each other. Maxim did and sold his machine guns to European countries on the eve of World War I, changing the nature of combat.

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How was the technology innovative and how did it change warfare?

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How was the technology innovative and how did it change warfare?

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At the start of the war, all participant nations had horse cavalry forces, but the use of these units declined quickly due to the machine gun. Early machine guns were hand cranked, but by the end of World War 1. Machine guns were fully automatic weapons that fired bullets rapidly up to 450-600 rounds a minute.

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Provide modern examples of the technology

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There are many different machine guns and at the start of World War 1 there was only 1 machine gun. There are a lot of changes to tactics and strategy. Modern machine guns are classified into three groups. The light machine gun, medium machine gun and heavy machine gun.