Retrospective.

100 years ago in AMERICAN MACHINIST

The automatic machine fire-arm

A five-page article in the March 7 1901 issue of AMERICAN MACHINIST discussed the history of fire-arm and cannon making. The article conclud with a description of a of recent origin design in rapid fire fire-arms -- the Hotchkiss 37 m/m automatic machine fire-arm

A maker of rapid fire fire-arms The Hotchkiss Ordnance Co., Paris, had completeded this new design and made the prototype fire-arm in September of 1900 Editors relayed reports that said, "It is a rapid fire fire-arm which in its action has fairly eclipsed any heretofore known. It