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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 ...
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.
Hiram Percy Maxim died in 1936. His callsign W1AW was licensed to the League and remains in use as the first-ever Memorial Station. In 1937 the DXCC Award, for working 100 countries, was established, and it still is the premier achievement in amateur radio. Operators, often under the ARRL Emergency Corps, helped at numerous disasters.
Maxim gun; Hiram Percy Maxim; Hiram Maxim; Hudson Maxim This page was last edited on 18 January 2024, at 02:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Progression of the most-viewed video on YouTube Video name Uploader Views at achievement* Publication date Date achieved Days after upload Days held Takedown date Ref Notes "Baby Shark Dance" [7] Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories: 7,046,700,000: June 17, 2016: November 2, 2020 1600 1,561 "Despacito" [10] Luis Fonsi: 2,993,700,000 ...
The Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station building appears much as it did when first built in 1938 and is now located next to the ARRL headquarters which was built in 1963. [ 1 ] The station was constructed on what was then 7 acres (28,000 m 2 ) rural in Newington, Connecticut , purchased for $2,200 from Ms. Elsie Starr (the only nearby resident ...
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 (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – first self-powered machine gun James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and Thomas Sutton , Scotland – color photography Stanley Mazor (born 1941), U.S. – microprocessor