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Hiram Stevens Maxim
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb.
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business · American-British inventor (1840–1916) · inventor · businessperson · gunsmith · also Hiram Stevens Maxim, Hiram Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, Hiram S. Maxim, Maxim
Born 5 February 1840 · Died 24 November 1916 · Q315601
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2001· 1 entry
Disney California Adventure Park opened, featuring the Golden Zephyr, a modern-day recreation of the Traver version of the ride
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1916· 1 entry
Died 1916-11-24.
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1911· 2 entries
On his 71st birthday, was the standard British machine gun for many years
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Maxim headed the newly formed Grahame-White, Blériot, and Maxim Company, founded with the two aviators and two hundred thousand pounds of capital
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1897· 1 entry
Formed 'Vickers, Son & Maxim'
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1894· 1 entry
The machine lifted and was prevented from rising by the outriggers
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1889· 1 entry
Of a 40-foot-long (12 m) craft with a 110-foot (34 m) wingspan that weighed 3
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1882· 2 entries
I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States
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“In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said:”
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1881· 2 entries
Maxim arrived in Britain to reorganise the London offices of the United States Electric Lighting Company
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Hiram Maxim married his secretary and mistress, Sarah, daughter of Charles Haynes of Boston, in 1881.
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1878· 2 entries
And that "he was knowingly committing bigamy" against his current wife, Jane Budden
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Cofounded the United States Electric Lighting Company together with Edward Weston to commercialize his designs
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1875· 1 entry
The family moved to Fanwood, New Jersey, with Hiram joining the family on weekends
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1872· 1 entry
But when he built his first "flying machine" he chose to use wings
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1867· 1 entry
Hiram Maxim married his first wife, the English-born Jane Budden, on 11 May 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-02-05.
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