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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 .
Sir Hiram Maxim showing his Extra Light gun in Germany in April 1895. Maxim M1895 cavalry gun, complete with a detached tripod carried on the back of a single soldier. With a mass of only 44.5 pounds (20 kg), it was the only complete machine gun at the time that could be carried by one man.
Hiram I, king of Tyrus, 980–947 BC; Hiram II, king of Tyrus (modern-day Tyre, Lebanon), 739–730 BC; Hiram Abiff, an appellation in Masonic myth applied to the "skillful man" whom Hiram the king of Tyre sent to make the furnishings of Solomon's temple. 966 BC; Hiram Abas (1932–1990), official in the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey
Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Ba‘l-mazzer I) was a king of Tyre.His father, Hiram I, was a contemporary of David and Solomon, kings of Israel.The only information available about Baal-Eser I comes from the following citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Josephus's Against Apion I.121:
The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim.It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. [15]The Maxim gun has been called "the weapon most associated with imperial conquest" by historian Martin Gilbert, [16] and was heavily used by colonial powers during the "Scramble for Africa".
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Hiram cast these bronzes in clay ground in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan/Zeredathah (1 Kings 7:46–47). 2 Chronicles 2:13–14 relates a formal request from King Solomon of Jerusalem to King Hiram I of Tyre, for workers and for materials to build a new temple. King Hiram (Huram in Chronicles) responds "And now I have ...