What if Hiram Maxim never emigrated to Europe and never invented the guns?
But what if they didn't invent it until after WWI?
I'm not real clear on the details, so it's bad you didn't ask this a month ago when i had easy access to some relevant books, but... Maxim's son was head of automobile manufacturing for Pope. That became the Columbia brand of automobile. Columbia was bought by the EVC which owned the Selden patent. Repercussions could be big. Or not.What if Hiram Maxim never emigrated to Europe and never invented the guns?
Maxim Guns not invented
Is it wrong that I misread that as "Mexicans not invented"?
WWI goes at double speed and is set to "Yakety Sax"?
WWI goes at double speed and is set to "Yakety Sax"?
So, is this about Mexicans or machine guns or Mexican machine guns?
I always imagine the North Korean nuclear program as a bunch of Asian guys in lab coats running around a powerplant to "Yakety Sax."
So, is this about Mexicans or machine guns or Mexican machine guns?
Except that that is a M1895 Colt-Browning Machine gun. It came out a year after the Maxim gun and has completely different internals.
The gun was reportedly used in the Mexican-American War.
IMHO, yes. You'd have to have a PoD, at the latest, in the late 1850s to have machineguns not invented. That's not to say they'd have to become reliable, portable, or widely adopted.Ahem, I have a revised premise: what if Maxim guns or any other analogues are not invented until after WWI?
Or is this too unlikely?
I agree with your specifics, but not your conclusion. The Maxim was more portable and/or reliable than Gardner, Gatling, Nordenfeldt, et. al. This affects the colonial wars, but IMO not as drastically as bobbis14 states.ANYWAY, Maxim wasn't the only guy inventing these things. There was also the Gatling, Gardner, and all these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Early_machine_guns
In short, no difference, except someone else gets the revenue from the patent.
Make that eleven years after.Except that that is a M1895 Colt-Browning Machine gun. It came out a year after the Maxim gun and has completely different internals.
Machine guns might develop along the M1895's automatice lever action rather than Maxim's recoil system.
At least for a time, anyways.