Keywords: Hiram Maxim leaning on machine gun.jpg en Hiram Stevens Maxim leaning on his first automatic gun <br /> Original caption The First Automatic Gun <br /> This gun fired at the rate of 666 shots per minute but only a few of them were made It was followed by a much smaller cheaper and lighter gun which has become the standard for the world cite book Hiram Stevens Maxim en Hiram Maxim Chapter XV https //books google com/books id nZdBAAAAIAAJ pg PA172 v onepage q f false My Life https //books google com/books id nZdBAAAAIAAJ printsec frontcover 2 1686350 London Methuen Co Ltd 1915 172 “173 en Google Books author unknown Hiram Stevens Maxim Black and white photographs of guns Black and white portrait photographs PD-old-70-1923 |