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Biography The name of Hiram Stevens Maxim (Feb 5 1840 - Nov 4 1916) is immediately associated with the invention and development of the machine gun. However, his name figured prominently with the development of early incandescent lamps, and it is in that regard that this short write-up is made. Hiram S. Maxim was born near Sangerville, Maine, USA.
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19 gru 2006 · Full catalog record. MARCXML. Reviewer: scottpmaxham - - July 4, 2016. Subject: Sir Hiram Maxim. An interesting look at the amazing life of Mr. Maxim, who is a relative of mine in some fashion.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. [1] Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps.
Hiram Maxim was a prolific inventor best known for the Maxim machine gun. The eldest son of a farmer who was a locally notable mechanic, Maxim was apprenticed at age 14 to a carriage maker. Exhibiting an early genius for invention, he obtained his first patent in 1866, for a hair-curling iron.
24 lis 2011 · Today we take a look at Iain McCallum’s Blood Brothers: Hiram and Hudson Maxim: Pioneers of Modern Warfare – a book deserving a place in everyone’s firearms library. Most people don’t realize that Hiram Maxim was a creative and technical genius, and the machine gun was one one of his many notable accomplishments.
SIR HIRAM MAXIM AND HIS GUN A LITERARY TRAIL. Hiram Maxim, born near Sangerville, Maine, in 1840, enjoyed a brilliant career as an inventor and self promotor. His best-known invention, the Maxim gun, proved appallingly successful during the British impe rialistic ventures in Africa at the turn of the century and later in World War I.
