Showing posts with label Potato Digger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Potato Digger. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

The first machine guns

Hiram Maxim's invention at the close of the 19th century dominated the 20th century. Colt and Browning, two American small arms giants, combined to produce a machine gun, the Colt-Browning "Potato Digger", while the Danish produced the Madsen - significantly, the first light machine gun (LMG) - which has often been overlooked.