With a domestic invention comes household innovations and with a military invention comes a revolution in military affairs. A revolution in military affairs is a fundamental change in the nature of warfare. With the invention of the machine gun came such a revolution in military affairs. Machine gun where used as early as the civil war although it was a very crude primitive weapon. Tactics had not changed from the civil war to WWI. The standard tactics of the war was an infantry charge but with a weapon that is capable of firing 600 rounds a minute there was huge casualties. Almost before soldiers could get out of the trenches in a charge they were cut down.
The machine gun known as the queen of the battlefield during World War 1 was originally invented by Hiram Maxim in 1884. Though there was other types of automatic guns this was the first weapon able to sustain firing without external support. The British army bought the machine gun in 1890. By the time of the First World War the machine gun was used by all major powers however Germans had 20 times the amount of machine guns compared to the allied forces. British officers were unsure of the effectiveness of the weapon and only issues two per battalion. The 1914 machine gun weighed 30-60kg, took a crew of 4-6 men to operate it, and was normally positioned on a flat tripod. These guns would rapidly overheat and become unusable with in minutes if fired continuously. There were two was that the gun was cooled, water cooled and air cooled. Water cooled machine guns have a water filled jacket which required the crew to carry large amounts of water with them. It was not unheard of crew urinating in the jacket to cool the weapon. Air cooled machine guns had air vents built into the weapon. Because of the weight and the water needed to cool the weapon the machine gun became a defensive weapon. It was not until 1915 when allied forces adopted the Lewis gun.
The Machine Gun The machine gun is one of the most important inventions in military history. ... Today's machine guns are being built even lighter, more reliable and accurate. ... The machine gun was invented for one reason and that's faster rapid firing. ... Without the machine gun, the U.S. ... To me that says it's the most important gun in military history. ...
Weapons like machine guns can cause a disturbance in the community according to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, as they are a first weapon choice for mobsters. "Malloy said, 'I think there's a long history and body of law in the United States that demonstrates they're wrong. In the 1930s, machine guns were the weapon of choice for mobsters. We collectively decided that machine guns should be illegal for private possession in the United States. We don't see machine guns being used in the U.S. in crimes. ...
Some pro-gunners and declare that heavy military equipment such as tanks, bazookas, etc., should be illegal, while reasonable controls on items such as automatic machine guns are all right. ... Opposition: Guns kill people. ... Domestic homicides as well are preceded by a long history of violence. ... (FBI) Gun suicides outnumber gun homicides. ... "This change might be viewed as a sort of inadvertent natural experiment, in which Americans launched a massive and unprecedented civilian armaments program, probably the largest in world history. ...
Implements such as slings, spears, bow and arrows, etc., were effective in early history but all made obsolete by the gun. ... It imposed taxes on the sale or transfer of certain firearms; such as machine guns, sawed-off rifles, and shotguns; required manufactures to put serial numbers of such weapons by the owner; and required sellers of such firearms to be licensed (C214). The 1934 Firearms Act led to the decline of machine guns such as the "Tommy Gun" and other typical gangster weapons, but did not contain any provisions that covered the sale of handguns and did not prohibit anybody from pu...
History Essay Since the beginning of time there has been a need for oneself to keep track of ones trading transactions by applying some method to calculate in a fair and accurate manner. ... His place in history came when his frustration grew at the many errors that he found when he examined the calculations for the Royal Astronomical Society. ... He was never to see this machine built. ... On 23 June 1912, Alan Turing was born and was destined to make his mark on the history of computing. ... Turing worked on the theory of computation and in 1937 presented a paper, which was to launch him ...
On one side, people want to be able to have their guns and on the other, people cannot see why the guns are needed. ... We"re talking about a past time that has been in our nation's history forever being ended. ... There are many reasons why gun control would not only hurt many of the citizens of the United States and their rights but it would affect a part of our history that has been around since we became an established country. ... Fewer guns means fewer death by guns and guns have been the leading cause of death in the United States for many years now. ... The incident in Los Ange...
The Gun Owners of America is another group that is against gun control. ... Anti-gun control. ... A type of gun control requiring review of the background of a potential gun owner to check for a criminal record or history of drug or alcohol abuse. ... A gun that can fire many rounds with one pull of the trigger, such as a machine gun. Gun-control law. ...
The most important new weapon of the war was the machine gun. The machine guns were the main reasons why trenches were built. The machine guns fired hundreds of times in one minute. Machine guns alone could wipe a thousand men. ... The Great War was one of the greatest and most powerful events in the history of mankind. ...
It is nearly impossible to understand the war-to read its history or the memoirs of it participants, or even to watch documentary films about it-without some knowledge of the terrible machines with which it was fought" (Kirk and Young, Preface). ... Air Force had not been formed yet) used the M2 almost to the exclusion of all other machine gun. ... Besa machine gun. ... The standard British machine gun was the Vickers .303. This gun was perhaps the most famous and widely used of all machine guns. ...