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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.
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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 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.
A Genius in the Family may refer to . A Genius in the Family, a 1997 memoir about Jacqueline du Pré; A Genius in the Family, a 1936 memoir by Hiram Percy Maxim. So Goes My Love, an American 1946 comedy film based on the memoir by Hiram Percy Maxim, released in the UK as A Genius in the Family
The Chalice of the Gods (2023) Rick Riordan said he'd keep the Percy Jackson books series at five, but good ideas can never stay dormant for too long these days. So, this fall, got our first new ...
The Dolly Sisters (1945) – biographical drama film about the Dolly Sisters, identical twins who became famous as entertainers on Broadway and in Europe [181] Fear No Evil (Italian: Il sole di Montecassino) (1945) – Italian drama film about the life of Benedict of Nursia [182]