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Hiram Maxim with his invention, the Maxim gun, an early and influential machine gun, 1884 (lemmy.world)
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[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Was it Maxim or Gatling who set out to create a weapon so terrible that nations would give up war completely rather than use it?

He must have been disappointed.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Gatling. He wanted to increase firepower per person, which would reduce the number of soldiers in a conflict.

Maxim:

"In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.'"

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