Because of overheating problems, this man improved his device by adding a cylindrical water filled case that went around the barrel.
This man's lesser known inventions included a precursor to the inhaler which used pine vapor as well as the modern mousetrap. He's not Joseph Swan, but did claim to invent the light bulb before Edison. This man then began work on a device that would be first used in the First Matabele War by the British. His namesake device was sold primarily by Basil Zarahoff after it was mass produced. Because of overheating problems, this man improved his device by adding a cylindrical water filled case that went around the barrel. That gun could fire at 600 rounds per minute because of a spring system that utilized the guns recoil in order to empty and reload the breech. For 10 points, name this American born, British inventor whose namesake machine gun was the basis of the Vickers guns used by the great powers in World War I.
This man's lesser known inventions included a precursor to the inhaler which used pine vapor as well as the modern mousetrap.
Sir Hiram Stevens {Maxim}