First mention in 1339. No metals that could with stand the pressures of regular mass or sustain fire. Technology was not good enough to make detailed, accurate, small pieces necessary for machine guns.

Americans found themselves as one of the front runners of the industrialized world. This was always associated closely with small arms.

The main reasons that the machine gun appeared when it did: The Civil War. The first modern war in which the effect of technology truly made themselvesapparent.

Organ Gun was the first intro of a machine gun to the world. It was first employed into combat in 1382 in the battle of Ghent and changed very little until about 250 years later. The organ gun by today's standards is not a machine gun but is capable of multiple shots at once. It was a moveable platform consisting of approximately 50 barre

In 1918 the machine gun cease to make headlines anymore, since it was a supposedly peaceful world. This summer, however, brought us the first working model of the thompson sub machine gun or the Tommy Gun. It was developed by Col. John Thompson as a military weapon, though it did not pan out that way. The 'trench broom' ,as he called it, was tested by the Marine Corps and the Army but few orders were ever made. It really gained fame for it's use by organized crime members for their dangerous business of bootlegging. The advantages of this gun were that the .45 could be used for fend off police and then the barrel could later be traded for a .22 barrel for quiet basement practice.

The gun that he invented, the Gatling gun, was the most reliable one to this date. This model incorporated a modern cartridge , a containing bullet, a propellent and means of ignition.

Records show us that the tank was the first and most effective response to the machine gun. At first they acted as mere battering rams. They made the existence of trenches almost obsolete and and the importance of the machine gun, although vital, declined in importance. Medium machine guns could still be used in repelling infantry assaults. Men were now protected by armor and no longer had to cross no man's land. Men had entered a new military era.

"Thank god we have got The Maxim gun, and they do not." Without the use of the Maxim many of British footholds in Africa might be lost

The advent of the machine gun changed the face of war fighting forever. No longer did the outcome of the war depend on the heart and morale of the troops, but whether or not they had enough ammo and water. No longer are we fighting the troops, but now his guns. By 1918 the transition to the new face of war was complete. We were coming up with faster and more sure fire ways to destroy ourselves. The world is changing yet. We as humans are becoming bystanders more and more now. Computers are going to be fighting the wars in years soon to come. With the introduction of nuclear weapons now, there is a logical conclusion in sight. The end of the world will not come with a whimper or a bang, it will come with the statistically inevitable short circuit that will launch the missiles from the silos, and helpless we will stand.

The machine gun was essentially an American invention, not simply because the four greatest names in machine gun history were americans, Gatling, Maxim, Browning, Lewis, but America was also the first to create such materials that could make automatic fire a feasibl

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