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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

automatic rifle fires continuously until the trigger is released. In 1883, Hiram Maxim patented in Britain a recoil-operated conversion of a Winchester rifle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s. In 1884, Hiram Maxim invented the Maxim gun, the first single-barreled machine gun. The world's first...

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...

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:...

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...

After Hiram Maxim introduced his recoil-powered machine gun in 1883, several gunsmiths set out to apply the same principles to handguns, including Maxim. Maxim's...

one of the chamberings of the Maxim-Silverman 1896 Pistol, a self-loading pistol designed and patented by Hiram Maxim and his assistant Louis Silverman...

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

served in the latter's role. In 1895, Hiram Maxim produced the 'miniature Maxim' which was a 27 pound pistol-calibre Maxim which was sold in small quantities...

Vickers, Schneider-Creusot, Krupp, and Škoda Works. Individuals include Hiram Maxim and Basil Zaharoff. Arms profits before and during World War I are compared...