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...

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...

Extra Light Rifle Calibre Maxim, designed in 1895, was an early medium machine gun. In 1884 American inventor Hiram Maxim designed the first fully automatic...

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...

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...

which continue firing as long as the trigger remains depressed. In 1883, Hiram Maxim patented a recoil-operated conversion of a Winchester rifle. Another...

Imperial German Army during World War I. It was an adaptation of Hiram Maxim's 1884 Maxim gun design, and was produced in a number of variants during the...

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...

two sons saw a photograph of American-born inventor Hiram Maxim (born 1840), creator of the Maxim gun; his superficial similarity to their father led...

Between 1883 and 1885, Hiram Maxim filed several patents on blowback-, recoil-, and gas-operation. In 1885, one year after Maxim's first gas-operated patent...

light anti-aircraft gun. Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun. Its longer range...

Reply to Sir Hiram Maxim's Challenge. Mr Maskelyne's Reply to Sir Hiram Maxim. Part I. Mr Maskelyne's Reply to Sir Hiram Maxim. Part II. Maxim Versus Maskelyne:...

subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns And Ammunitions Company at the same time, to become Vickers, Sons & Maxim. When Sir Hiram Maxim retired in 1911...

and/or rate of fire of a recoil operated firearm. It was invented by Hiram Maxim in 1894. The muzzle booster is distinct from the muzzle brake, which...

practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim. The Maxim machine gun used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet...

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...

using Edison's incandescent bulb. 1884: Sir Hiram Maxim invents the first self-powered Machine gun, the Maxim gun. 1885: Singer begins production of the...

out-and-back layout and creating a "racing" effect on two parallel tracks. Sir Hiram Maxims Captive Flying Machine is the oldest amusement park ride in Europe having...

that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, and Octave Chanute. Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3.5 tons, with a 110-foot (34 m) wingspan...

shopping street. Sir Hiram Maxim had a small factory at 57 Hatton Garden and in 1881, invented and started to produce the Maxim Gun, a prototype machine...

1694 and 1707 Frederick Currie, lived at the Manor House, May Place Hiram Maxim, inventor, lived at Stoneyhurst from 1884 until 1889 Derek Ufton, played...

class of weapons was best exemplified by the Maxim gun, invented by the American inventor Hiram Maxim. The Maxim was the most ubiquitous machine gun of World...

were also quite heavy, being, essentially, heavy machine guns. When Hiram Maxim developed his recoil-powered machine gun that used a single barrel, the...

Leavitt Lake Hiram Lowry (1843–1924), Chinese educator and Methodist clergyman Hiram Mather (1796–1868), American lawyer and politician Hiram Maxim (1840–1916)...

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...

was a piano maker from New Haven, Connecticut. He took the idea of Sir Hiram Maxim and then invented the second automatic fire sprinkler system in 1874...

although the flying machine he later constructed failed to fly. Sir Hiram Maxim was an American who moved to England and adopted English nationality...

stacking of wing planes was suggested by Sir George Cayley in 1843. Hiram Maxim adopted the idea for his steam-powered test rig, which lifted off but...

(1838–1919) Sir Hiram Maxim (1840–1916) caricature by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1904 Piccadilly regional offices, completed 1921 Hiram Maxim, inventor of the...

water-cooled Maxim machine gun, which had been developed by Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1885. The MG 11 was the last of a series of Swiss derivatives of the Maxim machine...