The MG 08 machine gun was an adaptation of a gun invented by who?
MG 08: The "Maschinengewehr" 08, or MG 08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. Maxim gun: The Maxim gun was a weapon invented by American-British inventor Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1883: it was the first recoil-operated machine gun.
Hiram Stevens Maxim