Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...
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This 19th-century firearm was built like a machine - we took it completely apart
Precision meets craftsmanship as we examine the mechanical elegance behind a classic early automatic pistol. In this episode, the process of field stripping reveals how thoughtful engineering choices ...
The belt-fed machine gun might be the norm these days, but in 1874 it was rather new. Early belt-fed weapons existed as far back as 1855 in the form of chain rifles, but the Bailey gun brought a ...
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