i need info on the following machinery that were used in the WWIpics and videos are accepted as well bolt-action rifle machine guns artillery/ shells flamethrowers thanx !!!! :D
Hiram Maxim invented the first true machine gun and offered it to his native country, the US. The War Department Procurement Office said, No, them boys will shoot too many bullets! Who'll pay for them? and turned it down. Actually, the Procurement Officers had all been offered lucrative jobs at Colt's Manufacturing, just like now. Hiram took his gun to England, who did buy a license to make the gun under the Vickers name, but it was the Germans who really saw the advantages of Maxim's gun. They learned to lay in crossing fields of fire so that each gun protected the guns on either side of it. This was a murderous advantage to defending positions.
