Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 866
n may be regulated to firebetween 350 and 750 rounds per minute, and thetotal weight of the gun is only twenty-five anda half pounds. America can justly claim the honor of invent- ing and developing the machine-gun, althoughHiram Maxim did give up his American citizen-ship and become a British… … LEWIS MACHINE-GUNS IN ACTION AT THE FRONT. only Americans have invented machine-guns.There have been others in various countries ofEurope and even in Japan. Our own army hasbeen using a gun known as the Benet-Mercier,which is something like the Hotchkiss. Just nowwe are waiting most anxiously for…
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