The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893.
Borchardt C93 with magazine and dummy wooden magazine
Carl Peters with a Borchardt C93 as his sidearm
Cased Borchardt C93-Pistol
Illustrated pictures collection
The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world.
Borchardt C-93
…The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. The design is based upon the Maxim gun's toggle lock mechanism. The pistol uses a locked breech and a short recoil operating cycle, with the barrel and breech moving backward together for a…
Maxim machine gun at Georgian National Museum.
Air-cooled, Extra Light Maxim M1895.
Illustration of the Maxim Gun in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1905
A large-bore Maxim on the USS Vixen c. 1898