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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 Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer , and also with developing mufflers for internal ...
Few of the claims to powered flight were widely accepted, or even made, at the time the events took place. The Wrights suffered in their early years from a lack of general recognition, while neither Ader nor Langley made any claim in the years immediately following their work. Indeed, Langley died in 1906 without ever making any claim of success.
So Goes My Love (released as A Genius in the Family in the UK) is an American 1946 comedy-drama film, produced by Universal Pictures.It is based on a true story, A Genius in the Family, the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, which focuses on the relationship between Maxim and his father, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.
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In The International Jew, Ford outlined a conspiracy wherein Jewish elites were attempting to re-engineer society to replace white Protestants with a compliant black underclass. He wrote: He wrote:
Hiram Maxim's automatic machine gun was a significant improvement over the then-current hand-cranked rotary barrel models. Maxim's gun was better than anything that Nordenfelt sold at the time. Zaharoff is believed to have had a hand in the events surrounding Maxim's attempts to demonstrate his invention between 1886 and 1888.
Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), English creator of the Maxim gun; Hiram E. McCallum (1899–1989), mayor of Toronto from 1948 to 1951; Hiram McCreary, Canadian politician; Hiram McCullough (1813–1885), US Congressman; Hiram Z. Mendow (1894-2001), Al Capone's lawyer during his trial; Hiram Messenger, several people with this name