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Accessed February 6, 2013. "colonel Isaac newton Lewis, who invented the first portable, air-cooled machine gun, dropped dead of heart disease yesterday afternoon in the Lackawanna Railroad station in Hoboken, N. J., while awaiting a train to Montclair, where he lived at 1 Russell Terrace."
The Lewis gun was invented by U.S. Army colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911, based on initial work by Samuel Maclean. [6] Despite its origins, the Lewis gun was not initially adopted by the U.S. military, most likely because of political differences between Lewis and General William Crozier, the chief of the Ordnance Department. [7]
6 sie 2023 · ''The story of the Lewis Gun is as rich as military history itself. From its invention in 1912 through World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, the Lewis Gun served with honor in trouble spots from Singapore to Constantinople, from Chosin Reservoir to Dunkirk. This exhaustive research effort by Dr. Truby, now
5 lis 2024 · Isaac Newton Lewis (born Oct. 12, 1858, New Salem, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 9, 1931, Hoboken, N.J.) was a U.S. Army officer and inventor best known for the Lewis machine gun, widely used in World War I and later.
3 sie 2023 · After being rejected by the United States Army, Isaac Newton Lewis, left, took his namesake gun to Europe on the eve of World War 1 and found buyers for his light, air-cooled machine gun. A gunner fires a Lewis gun from the hip with the assistance of a sling.
It was used as a fixed defense weapon, air machine gun, and infantry-grade light machine gun (LMG) throughout its career. The Lewis gun was in service during World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945), with limited service during the Korean War (1950-1953).
Lewis was so distressed by the attitude of his own countrymen that he contemplated for a while remaining away from the land of his birth. The adoption of the gun by the British brought him millions of dollars IB royalties.
