Hiram Maxim
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 108 years ago |
Date of birth | February 5,1840 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Sangerville |
Maine | |
United States | |
Date of died | November 24,1916 |
Died | Streatham |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse(s) | Jane Budden |
Nationality | American |
British | |
Children | Hiram Percy Maxim |
Adelaide Maxim Joubert | |
Florence Maxim Cutter | |
Job | Inventor |
Books | My Life |
A New System for Preventing Collisions at Sea | |
Artificial and natural flight | |
Spouse | Sarah Haynes |
Parents | Isaac Weston Maxim |
Harriet Boston | |
Grandchildren | Hiram Hamilton Maxim |
Percy H. Maxim Lee | |
Siblings | Hudson Maxim |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 439965 |
Hiram Maxim Life story
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was an American-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.