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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 ...
King’s movie nights with co-stars were particularly helpful: “We’d watch ‘Finding Nemo’ because we just needed to.” King, 24, says she first experienced antisemitism when she joined ...
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.
DK King of Swing, a video game; the Ponza Swing King, a baseball pitching machine invented by Lorenzo Ponza; the Swing King, a special cricket ball designed for swing bowling; Teddy Stauffer, German swing musician; Buddy Schwimmer, American swing dancer; Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian swing bowler; The Sultan of Swing may refer to: Wasim Akram ...
OF ALL THE righteous bastards Robert De Niro has played in his career, William “King” Hale might take the cake for the worst of the worst.His Killers of the Flower Moon character marks the ...
Jews and anti-semites. Gangsters and boxers. Street fights and political intrigues. 1937. Warsaw is the arena of power struggles between various political factions. A conspiracy at the height of power may change the face of the capital and the entire Second Polish Republic. The city is shaken by a gang led by a Polish socialist Jan Kaplica.
Actor Hiram Kasten, who made his mark in stand-up comedy and network TV shows like "Seinfeld," died in western New York after a prolonged illness, his family said Sunday. Kasten was 71 when he ...