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Colorized footage of Sir Hiram Maxim testing his invention, the machine gun, 1897. Lol the music suggests he’s testing a less diabolical invention like the dress shoe rather than a machine gun. I'd love to see the casualties from the invention of this monstrosity with the same background music.
Yes, his name was Sup Presser Hiram. A true genius indeed. Not enough Hiram’s (I’m a Hiram). I have to automatically assume this man is the reference they were aiming for when they named the character ‘Hiram Gummer’ for Tremors 4. Apostrophes are not for pluralization. They are for possession or contraction.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps.
Hiram Maxim (born February 5, 1840, Sangerville, Maine, U.S.—died November 24, 1916, London, England) 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.
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 passed away on 24 November 1916, only days before the Battle of the Somme, where more than one million soldiers were killed during the course of four months, many by the Maxim machine gun.
17 lut 2001 · Hiram Maxim's most famous invention-the machine gun-has killed countless thousands of men, from Matabeleland to Manchuria and Mafeking to Mons.
