Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did Roman soldiers under General Lucius Cornelius Sulla use the world's first machine gun in their siege to subdue the rebel city ...

The Browning M2 is one of the rare military designs that never really became obsolete. Its blend of power, range, ...