Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps
Belgian inventor and military officer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (1783-1868), sometimes spelled Fafschamps, was a Belgian Army captain. In 1851, with the Belgian gunsmith Joseph Montigny and the Fusnot company,[1] he developed what is sometimes considered the first machine gun in history,[2] 10 years before the advent of the Gatling gun.[3]