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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...
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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...
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  • 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. The...
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    He was the brother of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun and uncle of Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Silencer. Maxim started his career in...
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  • 1981), Romanian football player Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first machine gun Hiram Percy Maxim (1869–1936), founder of the American...
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    result of a large furniture factory that repeatedly burned down, Hiram Stevens Maxim was consulted on how to prevent a recurrence and invented the first...
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  • first three issues financed by American Radio Relay League founder Hiram Percy Maxim and secretary Clarence D. Tuska, with an expectation that increased...
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    The Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company was the result of a takeover by Hiram Maxim of Thorsten Nordenfelt's Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company...
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  • Leavitt Lake Hiram Lowry (1843–1924), Chinese educator and Methodist clergyman Hiram Mather (1796–1868), American lawyer and politician Hiram Maxim (1840–1916)...
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    PM M1910 (redirect from PM1910 Maxim)
    invasion of Ukraine. It was adopted in August 1910 and was derived from Hiram Maxim's Maxim gun, chambered for the standard Russian 7.62×54mmR rifle cartridge...
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    confirmed Spallanzani's and Jurine's findings. In 1912, the inventor Hiram Maxim independently proposed that bats used sound below the human auditory...
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    the Royal Tobacco Factory. In his autobiography, published in 1915, Hiram Maxim wrote of a visit he made to the factory: There was an immense number...
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    MG 08 (redirect from Maxim MG'08)
    standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war...
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  • Family, the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, which focuses on the relationship between Maxim and his father, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. The film was Myrna Loy's...
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    Gun". Collier's. November 30, 1901. p. 8. Retrieved September 1, 2014. Maxim, Hiram (1916). Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives...
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    tee manufacturer Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), inventor of the Maxim gun, a curling iron, fire sprinklers, and other devices Hiram Percy Maxim (1869–1936), inventor...
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    over Texas! Coast to Coast". Archived from the original on 2011-11-26. Maxim, Hiram Stevens (1908). "Flying Kites". Artificial and Natural Flight. p. 28...
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    called the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, is located on the grounds of ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. It was inspired by Maxim's 1AW callsign...
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  • subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns And Ammunitions Company at the same time, to become Vickers, Sons & Maxim. When Sir Hiram Maxim retired in 1911...
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  • Wayback Machine retrieval 2014 Mar 26, original link broken. Hiram Maxim Hiram Maxim's account of Sawyer, Wayback Machine retrieval from 2013 Nov 5,...
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