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He also invented the silencer so you could shoot without disturbing the neighbors. Edit: to everyone who has corrected me with “suppressor” instead of the common vernacular “silencer”, yes, you are correct. However, to those who say suppressors don’t significantly quiet a weapon, you are only partially correct. DeLisle carbine. I have shot one. I heard the striker fall, the projectile strike the plywood I was shooting and a noise similar to a rubber band flying through the air. I have shot subsonic .22lr out of a semiautomatic suppressed pistol, heard the action function and the casing hit the gravel. There are silent “suppressors”. Edit 2: yes, it was his son. Thank you.
Never I expected in my age to ever see actual recording of Sir Maxim himself, thanks to everyone who kept and restore this piece of history for all of us
@@budlewis721 for the time period this footage originally taken its actually still blackpowder, even earliest iteration of the gun were made with blackpowder cartidge
@@donlarocque5157 John Browning created the M1917 machine gun which looks somewhat similar to the Maxim gun. This is because both machine guns were water cooled hence the barrel jackets. Not to mention Maxim's design first hit the scene in 1886, several decades before Browning's design.
I’m actually related to Hiram. He was my grandmothers great uncle, making him my great great great uncle. A very distant relative, but a relative nonetheless.
My favorite Maxim quote "it will be seen that it is a very creditable thing to invent a killing machine, and nothing less than a disgrace to invent an apparatus to prevent human sufferings." He said this when he transitioned from making medicine to weapons.
@major general ramirez I’m guessing people who dabble in the invention and production of medicine get ostracized more frequently and/or severely than people inventing weapons and the like.
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 he got more credit for building a gun than any of his medical discoveries. Especially at this time, the military was highly respected and celebrated. The medical profession was less so, unfortunately.
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 He perhaps meant that a truly horrifying weapon would act as a deterrent for conflict. Much like the mutually assured destruction of nuclear weapons which arguably kept Russia and the USA from a hot war. Obviously his philosophy worked extremely well indeed and that's why we don't have wars any more.
@@BigWheel. Perhaps he thought that advances in medicine would only lead to people having fewer qualms about entering into conflict since the losses and personal tragedies would be lessened, paradoxically leading to an even more widespread distribution of suffering? Whilst he thought that dreadful and destructive enough weapons would lead to the opposite effect.
Hyram Maxim was the man who really invented the lightbulb. He was a scientist in Edison's lab and was the person who made the first incandescent light. Edison just made it to the patent office first. There was a whole court case on it. Edison just didn't want to give credit to a lab assistant. Maxim also invented the first inhaler called the pipe of peace. His gun was turned down by the US government but the British loved it.
Of course the British did. They were like: "How many of these can solve the African dilemma?" "Can we put it on a plane?" "Don't be SILLY! The African Zulu isn't in the sky! They are shaking a spear in your face"
@@ФёдорКеллер-н3ц You may be correct, but Edison improved upon the general concept to create a light bulb that could be turned on more than a few times and last more than a few minutes before burning out.
_He stood upon a little mound,_ _cast his lethargic eyes around,_ _and said beneath his breath:_ _"Whatever happens we have got_ _the Maxim Gun, and they have not"_
My favourite thing about original Maxim guns, is that the rate of fire was so variable, he had one set to go off every two minutes. There is an anecdote that he was sitting on the range sipping something, and someone walked up and asked “aren’t you supposed to be testing the weapon?” To which Maxim responded: “I am.” Moments before a gunshot sounded.
In their defense, most of their enemies from the Chinese NRA & PLA, and European and colonial forces in the Southeast Asia region had mostly bolt action rifles and a handful o MGs. But the United States had a good array of semi-automatic and automatic weapons that could bring down more fire on the Japanese than aforementioned forces
In actual use of this weapon wasn`t so prominent, early on it was even considered not effective enough, because in order to use it effectively there was a need of certain strategy. First of all it was bulky and heavy, it took time to set it up, it also is inaccurate and the range is not that far. So basically setting it up against cavalry it would be taken out pretty fast. So in order to use it effectively there was a need of more complicated strategy, on plain fields it wasnt very effective. So shooting from cliffs, or other means to reduce cavalry speed was needed to accompany this gun in a fight. But once you manage to stop the cavalry, they are dead after that rain of bullets... But if you dont stop them, they can maneuver very fast and dodge the bullets.
unthinkably BORING! maxim needed to step it up. modern miniguns fire a hundred rounds per second and that could stand to improve! KILL KILL KILL!!!!!!!!
So unthinkable was war that a few decades later we decided we needed everyone in the world to test all their new guns on each other to see who made the best ones. And then Germany wanted a rematch.
French british and german: yo remember napoleonic wars? so cool flanking the enemy and pushing them and winning the battle wow i wish this would be the same on france. *day later reports estimates british and french loses amount to 400k casualties* *the next day the germans launched an attack on the river marne* *germans loses around 390k casualties*
Leonardo Da Vinci was famous for sabotauging his own inventions particularly any of the war machines that his state's leaders wanted from him, he would put in something incredibly subtle that only an engineer would be able to notice (like how his "tank" if actually built to the plans, would be geared to only run in reverse)
The first time the army tried this new invention, they thought they had to reload the thing after every shot. Exasperated, Hiram Maxim turned to the soldier and said: "IT'S A MACHINEGUUUUN! "
@GeraltofRivia22 not really, Gatling Guns were only invented in 1865, the Maxim was from 1884, that's 19 years. Plus the Gatling is still manually operated with a crank, so the alleged soldier in the joke trying to manually prime it would make sense. Most repeating weapons of the era still needed to be manually operated, lever-action guns, bolt-actions, revolvers, etc.
@@justalurker3489 the original comment didn't say manually operated, it said reloaded after every shot. Repeating weapons that didn't need to be reloaded after every shot had been around for decades and decades by then.
When we see old technology these days, it looks old. But in this short video, it looks brand new. Everything that is old today, once used to be new and fresh.
Except for morals or a state's corruption or the legal murder of millions. Nothing about weapons of war amuse anybody of conscience, an insult to humanist morals and ethics. It's like gawking at vomit or human waste, except filthier.
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Are you sure about that? The idea of immunizations are the product of the British wanting to immunize their soldiers for wars in tropical environments.
Maxim In England, "Ladies & Gents, here's my new weapon of mass destruction..." The next day in Germany, "Did you know your enemy has purchased dozens of these human weed whackers..."
And within 20 years...that very weapon would change war forever, and send more than 10 million young men to their deaths in the Great War. Really eerie to watch...especially like this. Great video!
machineguns were not responsible for all the military deaths in the great war. infact 80% of the combat deaths were from explosives (60% of all deaths from artillery, the other 20% from mines and hand grenades), only around 19.5% of combat deaths came from small arms, and that would include rifles/etc not just machineguns.
@@matthiuskoenig3378Fair point! I did noy know that, actually. Still, the ability of the machine gun, combined with explosives like that, probably did contribute a lot to the changing nature of warfare, and the strengthening of Defense. Thank you for pointing the actual deaths out, as i was unaware. Not surprised in hindsight. Even today Artillery is often called the King of Battle
I love how he’s wearing formal clothes while firing deadly weapons of war. Mr. Fancy Pants has come to make a statement...buy my weapons or die from my weapons.
Coolest old man I've seen in a longtime. Did you see how fearless he walked up to those things? Never seen an Elder fire a damn howitzer. Fucking cool.
@@namcat53 listen, no offense but this sound like an opinion who has seen neither. There is some awesome inspiring interst in human engineering about the destruction and sadly the horrors we individuals witness. Be it a man-made landslide or sending bombs that travel miles with effective results is something to ponder about. You *MUST* reflect on humans past achievement and the wrong doings of man, to a point so solidify your own opinion of the world around you and the time we live in now. Or I'm just an asshole 🤣
@@ScoundrelSFB Ask any combat veteran or someone who has lost a loved one in a war how they feel about "effective results" and "inspiring interest". You've obviously never had to pick up the pieces of what was your friend and live with that nightmare memory forever after an "effective result". War is unimaginable horror and destruction whose nightmare results last generations. Never glorify war.
@@namcat53 I have, and do at the VA, I listen to their stories because I visit a relative. I have picked up dead friends. Live long enough and you will see carnage and stuff of nightmares. Don't get me wrong friend, I do not wish to glorify war but to speculate and ingest human triumph, and see its progression. We can't just be ignorant to how things came to be instead of just accepting how they are.
@@mathieubelliveau3916 Afraid not, 'Baldwins Manor' which he rented for the flying attempt was turned into a mental hospital, and now its a housing estate. The original manor house still stands as converted apartments in 'Culvert drive, Bexley, kent' more info and photos can be found here maypolehistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Baldwyns+Manor
This is such an honour to see and yet intriguing as well it just goes to show the development and new types of weaoon being created and invented at this time!
@Kreschavier It was a repeater, with a four shot magazine, you can see it and its shells on the left side of the gun. For whatever reason, they looped the first shot firing several times. If you would like to see it run through the whole magazine with no looping, start at 0:57.
Although much of this appears to be "looped", it's still an interesting film. It was the invention of rapid fire weapons such as this, that made World War I so deadly. And was also responsible for the static nature of "trench warfare".
Sir Hiram Maxim, well pleased by his invention, you can see the enthusiasm and the pride of this man in his inventions of mechanised death. If I wasn't so tainted by modern day scepticism , I reckon that he would probably have said something like, 'well If I don't do it, someone else will , so it might as well be me who makes a tidy profit out of mechanised death', and sadly he'd be right, someone would have. That' s progress folks , or in one of our modern leaders speak, " It is what it is!"
@@budlewis721 true but people these days aren't like they were 100 years ago, give a teen the same things a teen had in 1914 and they'd be crying all board, give a kid from 1914 a single comic book and that kid will have a life time of imagination to explore. We're a computer generation of course we wouldn't handle ww1, we think it's a slow painful war but really it was a rapid ticket to hell
@@I-AM-EL-ZOZO Well, consider that I was around long before computers and had lots of comic books, but they didn't keep me occupied for a week, nor did they cause me (or a significant majority of my contemporaries) to be too enthusiastic about fighting a faraway war. Each generation manages to rise to the challenge if necessary, no matter how flakey they are before that challenge arises.
These videos are on a loop. Deceptive. This man was a prolific inventor. A real genius of his time. He was knighted by the Queen (although he was born in the US…didn’t even know that was possible).
They’ve used the same technology and computer generated/altered frames as they did in the film “They Shall Not Grow Old” to make the film run smooth and more life like.
My old timer neegga casually firing a hand cannon with 105 mm shells and an antique beast machine gun, amazing , dressed in his Sunday best , complete with top hat, without eyesight or hearing protection 🙏🏾🤟🏾👌🏾👍
the gatling gun was let down by being far more expensive and incredibly unreliable (especially before the introduction of metal cartridges) to be a real game-changer like Maxim's gun.
Everyone's gangsta until Sir Hiram pulls out his gat.... then wheels it to a firing position.... loads the ammo....makes his final checks, then cranks that baby into action!
That first gun is a Maxim MG. The second looks like an upsized 40mm Bofors Canon, maybe 3 inch shell? It's amazing to see an autoloading Canon that big back then.
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Him bowing at the end. "Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I'm deaf."
Eh?
I was just thinking the same.
He also invented the silencer so you could shoot without disturbing the neighbors.
Edit: to everyone who has corrected me with “suppressor” instead of the common vernacular “silencer”, yes, you are correct.
However, to those who say suppressors don’t significantly quiet a weapon, you are only partially correct. DeLisle carbine. I have shot one. I heard the striker fall, the projectile strike the plywood I was shooting and a noise similar to a rubber band flying through the air.
I have shot subsonic .22lr out of a semiautomatic suppressed pistol, heard the action function and the casing hit the gravel.
There are silent “suppressors”.
Edit 2: yes, it was his son. Thank you.
Later that month, he invented sign language.
What?? :-)
Never I expected in my age to ever see actual recording of Sir Maxim himself, thanks to everyone who kept and restore this piece of history for all of us
I've seen this exact footage plenty of times, but never with the colorizing and 4k
Your welcome
@@Ulexcool Can you read?
Was he using smokeless powder? I couldn't see.
@@budlewis721 for the time period this footage originally taken its actually still blackpowder, even earliest iteration of the gun were made with blackpowder cartidge
This design was exported to almost every major participant in the first World War. Maxim made a fortune off his invention.
Yup! this video must have been designed with some kind of demo purpose in mind, outrageously ingenious product marketing for its time. 🍷
Blood money
If you mean just as greedy and callous, yes.
You mean John Moses Browning.
@@donlarocque5157 John Browning created the M1917 machine gun which looks somewhat similar to the Maxim gun. This is because both machine guns were water cooled hence the barrel jackets. Not to mention Maxim's design first hit the scene in 1886, several decades before Browning's design.
At that moment 200 years of battle tactics go out the window.
"The art of warfare ended the day gunpowder was invented." ... Swami Venkateshananda
@@Bhakti-rider So over a thousand years ago?
@@darren561 I believe it's been at least that long, hasn't it?
@@Bhakti-rider So the art of warfare ended a couple hundred years after the Western Roman Empire fell?
@@darren561 Well, I was quoting Venkateshananda; I heard him say it. I'm not a (or an) historian, so I wouldn't be able to comment on specific dates.
Seeing an 181 year old (today) man with his own invented machine gun is just amazing.
It's like magic, just without its mysteries.
This guy was 25 when Lincoln was assassinated. I wonder what he was doing during the war?
Seeing the machine gun he invented used by Ukrainians in defense of the country is even cooler.
@@SStupendoussetting fire to stuff and being a scallywag me thinks.
What exactly about this slaughtering machine is amazing?
I’m actually related to Hiram. He was my grandmothers great uncle, making him my great great great uncle. A very distant relative, but a relative nonetheless.
Great great great, why tho
@@DMartinov did you just ask why he has relatives?
GG Gamer, why tho
@@DMartinov Why not?
@@DMartinov Alright so when a mommy human and a daddy human loves each other very much-
My favorite Maxim quote "it will be seen that it is a very creditable thing to invent a killing machine, and nothing less than a disgrace to invent an apparatus to prevent human sufferings."
He said this when he transitioned from making medicine to weapons.
Could you explain that?
@major general ramirez
I’m guessing people who dabble in the invention and production of medicine get ostracized more frequently and/or severely than people inventing weapons and the like.
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 he got more credit for building a gun than any of his medical discoveries. Especially at this time, the military was highly respected and celebrated. The medical profession was less so, unfortunately.
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 He perhaps meant that a truly horrifying weapon would act as a deterrent for conflict. Much like the mutually assured destruction of nuclear weapons which arguably kept Russia and the USA from a hot war. Obviously his philosophy worked extremely well indeed and that's why we don't have wars any more.
@@BigWheel. Perhaps he thought that advances in medicine would only lead to people having fewer qualms about entering into conflict since the losses and personal tragedies would be lessened, paradoxically leading to an even more widespread distribution of suffering? Whilst he thought that dreadful and destructive enough weapons would lead to the opposite effect.
"Hi, I'm Ian McCollum and today we're at the Rock Island Auction House. This is really slick!"
Ah Forgotten Weapons
I don't even like guns yet Gun Jesus is my asmr
@@blaisebaileyfinnegan Glad you at least like Gun Jesus😂
@@random-jj7ix can we all agree that Gun Jesus is a national treasure? Because I can!
@@biohazard0482 yessir
No lip syncing. No auto-tuner. Just pure talent.
😂😂😂
Amazing! I will never stop being fascinated by historical footage!
Ain't that the truth!
@Michael N aCkThUaLlY
This is a guy born in 1840, as well, I should mention. He was within the average age of a typical Union soldier in the Civil War.
@Sandra, you're not alone. It's as close to time travel as we'll get.
@Michael N i bet everybody loves u at their parties...
0:49 I love how a new shell just appears out of nowhere in the feeding strip every time he shoots.
It's on a loop 🙄
You caught it!
@@suredeydo You don't say
Probably looped to give the scene more run time to be enjoyed. Looked to be a three shot originally.
It's an ace combat cannon lmao
Hyram Maxim was the man who really invented the lightbulb. He was a scientist in Edison's lab and was the person who made the first incandescent light. Edison just made it to the patent office first. There was a whole court case on it. Edison just didn't want to give credit to a lab assistant. Maxim also invented the first inhaler called the pipe of peace. His gun was turned down by the US government but the British loved it.
Of course the British did. They were like:
"How many of these can solve the African dilemma?"
"Can we put it on a plane?"
"Don't be SILLY! The African Zulu isn't in the sky! They are shaking a spear in your face"
А вообще, изобрёл лампочку первым русский учёный Лодыгин.
@@Mantyszyger if only they were successful.
@@ФёдорКеллер-н3ц
You may be correct, but Edison improved upon the general concept to create a light bulb that could be turned on more than a few times and last more than a few minutes before burning out.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Эдисон усовершенствовал, всё правильно. И создал удобный электропатрон. Но первым всё-таки был Лодыгин, про него нельзя забывать.
The perfect homestead defense gun for the modern gentleman on the go.
Indeed sir
😂
Comes in handy when being accosted by street thugs from Whitechapel, or a battalion of invading Austro-Hungarian soldiers.
And each cloud of smoke is exactly the same
Really great for when there are just too many of those darned sparrows in your corn field
_He stood upon a little mound,_
_cast his lethargic eyes around,_
_and said beneath his breath:_
_"Whatever happens we have got_
_the Maxim Gun, and they have not"_
@@ClipgathererIt wasn't the Boer war. The Boers had Maxim guns too. It was some African tribal war.
@@williamstephens9945 It was before Zaharoff sold it to both sides!
@@williamstephens9945 Zulu war?
😂😂😂because if it was then that was one way to be wrecked by tribal guys.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 No, I think it was the Matabele conflict.
@@williamstephens9945 well. They wrecked em
My favourite thing about original Maxim guns, is that the rate of fire was so variable, he had one set to go off every two minutes.
There is an anecdote that he was sitting on the range sipping something, and someone walked up and asked “aren’t you supposed to be testing the weapon?”
To which Maxim responded: “I am.” Moments before a gunshot sounded.
Machine Gun: rains death at a devastating rate, rendering large melee charges ineffective
Japan in tbe next 50 years: Imma pretend I didn't see that
In their defense, most of their enemies from the Chinese NRA & PLA, and European and colonial forces in the Southeast Asia region had mostly bolt action rifles and a handful o MGs.
But the United States had a good array of semi-automatic and automatic weapons that could bring down more fire on the Japanese than aforementioned forces
In actual use of this weapon wasn`t so prominent, early on it was even considered not effective enough, because in order to use it effectively there was a need of certain strategy. First of all it was bulky and heavy, it took time to set it up, it also is inaccurate and the range is not that far.
So basically setting it up against cavalry it would be taken out pretty fast.
So in order to use it effectively there was a need of more complicated strategy, on plain fields it wasnt very effective. So shooting from cliffs, or other means to reduce cavalry speed was needed to accompany this gun in a fight. But once you manage to stop the cavalry, they are dead after that rain of bullets... But if you dont stop them, they can maneuver very fast and dodge the bullets.
Oh god thats giving me flashbacks from FoTS
Also every army in WW1
@@S3l3ct1ve 5,674 cavalry dead in ww1. Guess it didn’t go so well for them
I´ve never seen a machine gun fired with more style.
Look at the pride and satisfaction in his face at the end. He knows he made some badass stuff and be successful in selling it as well.
"...and I'm certain that this weapon will make warfare unthinkable..."
unthinkably BORING! maxim needed to step it up. modern miniguns fire a hundred rounds per second and that could stand to improve! KILL KILL KILL!!!!!!!!
@Mister Flibble Lots of those on RUclips
Unthinkably awful
So unthinkable was war that a few decades later we decided we needed everyone in the world to test all their new guns on each other to see who made the best ones.
And then Germany wanted a rematch.
@@BigWheel. this is a great comment
"Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not."
- Hilaire Belloc
Except they did. Everyone had a version of this weapon.
@@jonathanallard2128 the poem is from the 1880's...
@@Laotzu.Goldbug Yes. Some things don't age very well.
@@jonathanallard2128 no it aged fine, you just don't understand it. It was said in relation to the British and their African colonial subjects.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug Understand that whatever it was made for is irrelevant when someone says it didn't age well.
Many things Sir Maxim invented. From mousetraps to artillery guns. But he apparently failed to invent hearing protection.
Maybe the din was music to his ears- as he is thinking- " advance on THIS!"
His son invented the muffler and silencer.
WHAT?
Huh???
@@danielmart7940
-DID YOU CAME FOR HEARING CHECK TOO???
- HUH?
-WHAT?
A prayer for those who encountered this beast first time in the battlefield 🙏
They probably thought "what on Earth is THAT??!!!" before getting killed or PTSD'd.
"Alright, men, let's wait for them to stop shooting to reload....
....any moment now........"
They called it The Devil's Paintbrush...
French british and german: yo remember napoleonic wars? so cool flanking the enemy and pushing them and winning the battle wow i wish this would be the same on france.
*day later reports estimates british and french loses amount to 400k casualties*
*the next day the germans launched an attack on the river marne*
*germans loses around 390k casualties*
Sweats in Zulu
This guy looked very old than for his 57 years at that time in this video.
People were older back then
He turned grey / white, that's about it. His face does not look that old at all.
I know guys who started turning grey in their early 20's.
@@TehNetherlands This guy looked 100+
He moves quick like someone in his 50s. Someone who is 70 or 80 whould move slow and has back or hip pain.
@@kroktal8896 thats why its called "the old days"
"The world would be better without you!" - Ezio Auditore, when destroying Leonardo Da Vinci's prototype machine gun.
Good old Assassin's Creed days 😢
Leonardo Da Vinci was famous for sabotauging his own inventions particularly any of the war machines that his state's leaders wanted from him, he would put in something incredibly subtle that only an engineer would be able to notice (like how his "tank" if actually built to the plans, would be geared to only run in reverse)
The first time the army tried this new invention, they thought they had to reload the thing after every shot.
Exasperated, Hiram Maxim turned to the soldier and said:
"IT'S A MACHINEGUUUUN! "
British soldier: laughs
ERIKA INTENSIFIES
I know its a joke, but repeating weapons had been around for ages by this point, including the Gatling gun.
@GeraltofRivia22 not really, Gatling Guns were only invented in 1865, the Maxim was from 1884, that's 19 years. Plus the Gatling is still manually operated with a crank, so the alleged soldier in the joke trying to manually prime it would make sense. Most repeating weapons of the era still needed to be manually operated, lever-action guns, bolt-actions, revolvers, etc.
@@justalurker3489 the original comment didn't say manually operated, it said reloaded after every shot. Repeating weapons that didn't need to be reloaded after every shot had been around for decades and decades by then.
@@GeraltofRivia22i think the issue is that OP should have said loaded instead
“For this trick, I will end the cavalry charge as a viable strategy.”
cavalry????.....where we're going ...we don't need ...,.... cavalry (back to the future)
“….and make enormous profits from my murderous machine which I will sell to both sides.”
we still have cavalry. it's mechanized cavalry.
@@FazeParticles But not when this gun was made.
@@thevoidlookspretty7079 true, it was a hard counter for like 10-15 years.
I like how the cannon reloads itself out of thin air. What an inventor!
Well, that's the point. It was a quick-firing cannon; in this case the rounds were on the top of the barrel in a rack, being loaded after every shot.
When we see old technology these days, it looks old. But in this short video, it looks brand new. Everything that is old today, once used to be new and fresh.
Except for morals or a state's corruption or the legal murder of millions. Nothing about weapons of war amuse anybody of conscience, an insult to humanist morals and ethics. It's like gawking at vomit or human waste, except filthier.
and it changed warfare forever. watching this is both amazing and saddening. humans finding faster ways to kill eachother
For the only goal of maximizing profits
Everything you take for granted is the product of 9000 years of human aggression.
@@conspiracyscholor7866 I take polio vaccine for granted and its not the product of aggression.
@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Are you sure about that? The idea of immunizations are the product of the British wanting to immunize their soldiers for wars in tropical environments.
That’s based btw you look like a bundle of sticks.
This has to be one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen on RUclips
0:47 When you used "infinite ammo" cheat and play with grenade launcher
Edit: say grenade launcher instead of field artillery and see what happens
That's a field artilery, not a grenade launcher
@@blackman5867 So?
@@commissarvigil4806 what ? I'm just saying. Did you get offended ?
@@commissarvigil4806 you gotta know the difference.
Replay?
Love how he needs his hat back before he can take a bow.
I just love these old videos. The cannon and machine gun are badass!
It is amazing to watch over 100 years old footage with guality this good!
It is repainted...
Maxim In England, "Ladies & Gents, here's my new weapon of mass destruction..." The next day in Germany, "Did you know your enemy has purchased dozens of these human weed whackers..."
Mainer
😆 Back then boy did they have some real SOB's ! and as thick as they came.. haa haaa haa now this gave me a good laugh for sure.
And within 20 years...that very weapon would change war forever, and send more than 10 million young men to their deaths in the Great War. Really eerie to watch...especially like this. Great video!
machineguns were not responsible for all the military deaths in the great war. infact 80% of the combat deaths were from explosives (60% of all deaths from artillery, the other 20% from mines and hand grenades), only around 19.5% of combat deaths came from small arms, and that would include rifles/etc not just machineguns.
@@matthiuskoenig3378Fair point! I did noy know that, actually. Still, the ability of the machine gun, combined with explosives like that, probably did contribute a lot to the changing nature of warfare, and the strengthening of Defense. Thank you for pointing the actual deaths out, as i was unaware. Not surprised in hindsight. Even today Artillery is often called the King of Battle
The way the shells just respawn out of nowhere is made me dying
Only a replay of 1 shot over and over.. some won't ever see it lol
I love how he’s wearing formal clothes while firing deadly weapons of war. Mr. Fancy Pants has come to make a statement...buy my weapons or die from my weapons.
That's just the culture back then. Whites are epic
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BRAVO SIR.. I SAY, BRAVO! 👏
"fancy pants" reminded me of Dr King Schultz... I'm sorry. I couldn't resist.
@@hihello8771 exactly, that why english is the current international language.
UNBELIEVABLE rate of fire, mobility, set-up/lock down time, and minimal smoke for its time in history!! Thank you for uploading this! INSTANT SUB!
Smokeless Powder was invented in 1884, so all new firearms from that time on were made to accommodate smokeless. You can't interchange the two.
"IT'S A MACHINE GUN!"
"Ha ha okay"
0:50
Reloading in video games be like
Lol
@Mister Flibble Go back to the banana tree you came from
The way he gentlemanly bowed at the end....
Coolest old man I've seen in a longtime. Did you see how fearless he walked up to those things? Never seen an Elder fire a damn howitzer.
Fucking cool.
I bet chicks were all over him
There is nothing "cool" or "fearless" about destruction and horror.
@@namcat53 listen, no offense but this sound like an opinion who has seen neither. There is some awesome inspiring interst in human engineering about the destruction and sadly the horrors we individuals witness. Be it a man-made landslide or sending bombs that travel miles with effective results is something to ponder about. You *MUST* reflect on humans past achievement and the wrong doings of man, to a point so solidify your own opinion of the world around you and the time we live in now.
Or I'm just an asshole 🤣
@@ScoundrelSFB Ask any combat veteran or someone who has lost a loved one in a war how they feel about "effective results" and "inspiring interest". You've obviously never had to pick up the pieces of what was your friend and live with that nightmare memory forever after an "effective result". War is unimaginable horror and destruction whose nightmare results last generations. Never glorify war.
@@namcat53 I have, and do at the VA, I listen to their stories because I visit a relative. I have picked up dead friends. Live long enough and you will see carnage and stuff of nightmares.
Don't get me wrong friend, I do not wish to glorify war but to speculate and ingest human triumph, and see its progression.
We can't just be ignorant to how things came to be instead of just accepting how they are.
"Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb". Edison probably stole it from him
In real life I understand that Edison was a major PRICK!
It took a lot of people's different attempts to invent the lightbulb to create the final model that worked as intended.
@Polhat- That’s true, but in US History, I was taught that Edison invented the lightbulb, when in fact he bought the patent.
edison stole everything, thank goodness he didnt win out over tesla
the light bulb was stolen in adrica, like everything else 😡
It's amazing to see the beginning of this new weapon. The cyclic rate increased exponentially over the years
this dude invented the term "straight blastin"
I grew up playing in what used to be his back garden. the same place he flew and then crashed his giant aeroplane thing
Any stray parts lying around?
@@mathieubelliveau3916 Afraid not, 'Baldwins Manor' which he rented for the flying attempt was turned into a mental hospital, and now its a housing estate. The original manor house still stands as converted apartments in 'Culvert drive, Bexley, kent' more info and photos can be found here maypolehistory.wikifoundry.com/page/Baldwyns+Manor
@@ACplanet Thank you for the link, most interesting.
"An elegant weapon, for a more... civilized age" - Sir Hiram Maxim
This is such an honour to see and yet intriguing as well it just goes to show the development and new types of weaoon being created and invented at this time!
0:44 This explains why cannons have infinite ammo in movies.
Mr. Maxim was from the state of Maine. This is amazing footage, I never realized he also made a repeating artillery piece! Wow!
He didn't. That's the exact same clip on repeat.
@Kreschavier It was a repeater, with a four shot magazine, you can see it and its shells on the left side of the gun. For whatever reason, they looped the first shot firing several times.
If you would like to see it run through the whole magazine with no looping, start at 0:57.
@Kreschavier am ancestor of mine..I live 5 miles from his birthplace in Sangerville Maine
WOW! That was outstanding! Thanks for sharing this!
Although much of this appears to be "looped", it's still an interesting film.
It was the invention of rapid fire weapons such as this, that made World War I so deadly. And was also responsible for the static nature of "trench warfare".
In 1897.
There was no sound. So he most definitely did not go deaf..
so crisp and clear like it was taken a minute ago
this has better quality than 90% of the videos I watch
And?
Fantastic.
That must have been one of the Martini-Henry chambered guns from all the smoke.
Marvelous footage!
this is gold, the smoothness and sound was beyond my expectations
The sound is added. Almost all the sound you ever hear in old recordings like this in documentaries even up to the 1970s and later is added after.
RIP headphone users: 0:16
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And everyone who was on the receiving end of that Machine gun lol
I'm so deaf I can't read your comment
Thanks, Sir Maxim, this invention was a pure bliss for mankind
People in 1897: "Oh man, give a few years and we're going to have the greatest war ever!"
So great that they're gonna have to make a sequel!
A war to end all wars, as it were.
Yes, and with a Hurra soldiers ran into machine gun fire.....
@@Nugcon A sequel so good it is basically begging for it to be a trilogy
@@Nugcon The sequel you've all been Waiting for!!!
Sir Hiram Maxim, well pleased by his invention, you can see the enthusiasm and the pride of this man in his inventions of mechanised death. If I wasn't so tainted by modern day scepticism , I reckon that he would probably have said something like, 'well If I don't do it, someone else will , so it might as well be me who makes a tidy profit out of mechanised death', and sadly he'd be right, someone would have. That' s progress folks , or in one of our modern leaders speak, " It is what it is!"
John Moses Browning was already working on his next generation machine guns which later surpassed Maxim's designs.
Cult leaders are not really leaders, don't quote them.
This is really based.
Are you like a senior from 1850? "That's progress folks!" "Or in one of our modern leaders' speak"
These are very cool despite what they can do
Seeing an 181 year old man with his own invented machine gun is just amazing.
As someone born in the final years of the 20th century, I'm glad I was not born a hundred years earlier
Same, people in our generation would not be able to mentally handle the great war. It would drive them to madness
Well, WW1 arouse the lost generation...
@@I-AM-EL-ZOZO It drove many to madness then, too. War is no observer of traumatic restraint during any period.
@@budlewis721 true but people these days aren't like they were 100 years ago, give a teen the same things a teen had in 1914 and they'd be crying all board, give a kid from 1914 a single comic book and that kid will have a life time of imagination to explore. We're a computer generation of course we wouldn't handle ww1, we think it's a slow painful war but really it was a rapid ticket to hell
@@I-AM-EL-ZOZO Well, consider that I was around long before computers and had lots of comic books, but they didn't keep me occupied for a week, nor did they cause me (or a significant majority of my contemporaries) to be too enthusiastic about fighting a faraway war. Each generation manages to rise to the challenge if necessary, no matter how flakey they are before that challenge arises.
Very nice. At first, I thought this was an actor in costume. Excellent video. Preserving history.
Wow, this part of Sir Maxim’s technology for the appearance of a projectile in the feed box remained classified ^)
Let's have a 10 hour version of this masterpiece
Amazing that all the smoke decided to stay on the other side of him so that the picture stayed clear.
Amazing that the understood such things as wind direction in those days. These guys were so clever compared to us.
These videos are on a loop. Deceptive.
This man was a prolific inventor. A real genius of his time. He was knighted by the Queen (although he was born in the US…didn’t even know that was possible).
You guys who do the recoloring of these old videos, you guys are wizards.
Nah, this is automated colorisation, which is impressive, but it means the colours aren't accurate and inconsistent
Amazing, just think how this invention changed the 20th century
it's so high-quality that even the sound is high-quality
Imagine seeing this demonstration. Knowing this was not just going to change warfare, but the world altogether
Man went from this to being able to annihilate an entire country in a matter of minutes.
@Erika
Was he a 👃🏻?
Considering the clip is artificially recoloured, the shading is genuinely really good.
“Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.”
where was that from?
@@d3203 The Modern Traveller (1898) by Hilaire Belloc
They’ve used the same technology and computer generated/altered frames as they did in the film “They Shall Not Grow Old” to make the film run smooth and more life like.
"Reckon it will take off?" "...naaaah"
"Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer
The machine gun has killed more people than the atomic bomb, and still does
@@ezequielstepanenko3229 cause it still counting to this day
Weapons that made millions of mothers to cry.🙏❤🇺🇸
My old timer neegga casually firing a hand cannon with 105 mm shells and an antique beast machine gun, amazing , dressed in his Sunday best , complete with top hat, without eyesight or hearing protection 🙏🏾🤟🏾👌🏾👍
Guy watching: Fantastic machine Sir Maxim!
Maxim: What?
Maxim: Is hailed as the man who changed modern warfare forever.
Dr. Richard Gatling : am i a joke to you?
Poor Richard Gatling, his invention sucked so much
@@adriani.m4163 It really didn't, the Gatling gun was alright...
Leonardo Da Vinci:
@@adriani.m4163 How? How did his invention suck?
the gatling gun was let down by being far more expensive and incredibly unreliable (especially before the introduction of metal cartridges) to be a real game-changer like Maxim's gun.
Henry maxim went deaf from testing his machinegun. So his son invented the supressor.
Truly amazing. The funny thing about the past is that at the time it just feels like the present.
Everyone's gangsta until Sir Hiram pulls out his gat.... then wheels it to a firing position.... loads the ammo....makes his final checks, then cranks that baby into action!
Ahhh, 1897. When any young man could invent and build a machine gun, and test-fire it right in his backyard
FINALLY! something colorised without meme contexts. INVENTIONS in colorised forms are real gold!
history saved, great work
And through all time echoed the words
“_It’s a machine gun!_”
That first gun is a Maxim MG. The second looks like an upsized 40mm Bofors Canon, maybe 3 inch shell? It's amazing to see an autoloading Canon that big back then.
Can’t find the cannon sadly I’m not sure what model it is
It is called Maxim 9 pdr naval fast firing gun, it could fire 60 rounds per minute, it is probably a 64mm gun considering the projectile weight
Some impressive engineering genius right there
It's weird to know that none in the film are alive today
And yet the gun in the film is still being used in combat.
This invention alone, would change the world forever.
Reminds me of the guns they used in 'The Last Samauri'
Looks like the movie did a good job recreating good replicas!!
Those guns were Gatling guns though, if I'm not mistaken.
This gun is the evolution of the Gatlings used in The Last Samurai. No need for this gun to be manually cranked.
in two minutes he shows how he will change the world
European generals: That's awesome! I want 100!!
Also European Generals: Men, charge headlong into that across a muddy and open field
When you've done the math and realise you have more men in reserve than they have bullets. WW1 tactics in a nutshell.
A gentleman, a scholar. A gunner.
Fascinating. All those fired rounds and the barrel didn't melt. And I've always wondered why artillery cannons didn't have multiple-round magazines.