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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 .
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
Sister Kenny (1946) – biographical drama film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, ... A Genius in the Family, the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, ...
In "Hansel and Gretel," Hansel speaks more often and for longer than his sister, and the first phrase he utters to her happens to be, "Quiet, Gretel." This explicit shushing is a common thread throughout the Grimms' take on folklore; spells of silence are cast on women more than they are on men, and the characters most valued by male suitors ...
In the spring of 1914, Hiram Percy Maxim began promoting the idea of a national organization of amateurs that would transmit messages over greater distances by organizing relays. This resulted in Maxim's incorporation of the American Radio Relay League, with Maxim as president, and Tuska the organization's secretary.