
	Where results make sense

Topic: Hiram Maxim

Related Topics

Maxim

Maxim gun

Hiram Stevens Maxim

Vickers gun

Maxim machine gun

Hiram Percy Maxim

Machine gun

Light machine gun

Lewis Gun

Gatling gun

MAG 58

M2 machine gun

Aviation history

Richard Jordan Gatling

Octave Chanute

	Hiram Percy Maxim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hiram Percy Maxim ( September 2, 1869 - February 17, 1936) was founder of the American Radio Relay League and had the amateur call sign W1AW (now the ARRL home station call sign).
		Hiram Percy Maxim was a mechanical engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		He is noted as the inventor of the "Maxim Silencer" or Suppressor for firearms as well as of a silencer (or muffler) for gasoline engines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiram_Percy_Maxim (161 words)

	Hiram Stevens Maxim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maxim founded an armaments company to produce his machine gun in Crayford, Kent, which was later bought out by the Vickers corporation in 1896, becoming 'Vickers, Son and Maxim'.
		Maxim died in London and is buried in West Norwood Cemetery.
		His son Hiram Percy Maxim followed in his father and uncle's footsteps and became a mechanical engineer and weapons designer as well, but he is perhaps best known for his early Amateur Radio experiments and for founding the American Radio Relay League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiram_Stevens_Maxim (290 words)

	Hiram Stevens Maxim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( February 4, 1840 - November 24, 1916) was the inventor of the Maxim Gun in 1884, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun.
		Maxim was born in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine in the United States of America but emigrated to England.
		Maxim was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1901 for his inventions, many of which had military applications.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Hiram_Stevens_Maxim (211 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Sir Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916)
		Maxim's intention was, before attempting free flight, to get as much data as possible regarding the conditions under which flight must be obtained, by what is known in these days as 'taxi-ing'--that is, running the propellers at sufficient speed to drive the machine along the ground without actually mounting into the air.
		Hiram Maxim was also the inventor of the rapid firing Machine Gun (for which he was knighted in 1901 when he became a naturalised British subject) and as an aviation pioneer, it was from the latter areas that our paths crossed.
		Hiram Maxim was born in the small town of Sangerville, Maine in the United States on the 5th of February 1840.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/maxim.html (7311 words)

	Sir Hiram Maxim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hiram’s only schooling was what he gleaned from five years of learning in a one-room Sangerville schoolhouse.
		The Maxim Gun Co. was formed and later merged with Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. of England.
		Sir Hiram Maxim died in his adopted homeland at Streathan, Nov. 24, 1916, at the age of 77.
	www.sangerville.lib.me.us /hiram.html (666 words)

	Encyclopedia: Machine gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These weapons were still powered by hand however, this changed with Hiram Maxim 's idea of harnessing recoil energy to power reloading in his Maxim machine gun.
		The first true machine gun was the Maxim machine gun, invented in 1883 by Hiram Maxim.
		Maxim's other great innovation was the use of water cooling (via a water jacket around the barrel) to reduce overheating.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Machine-gun (5678 words)

	Go ahead, MAKE MY DAY
		Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville, Maine in 1840.
		Maxim used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next bullet.
		Before his death in 1916 Hiram Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, the gun silencer (subsequently adapted for car exhausts), a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, carbon filaments for light bulbs and a flying machine.
	puffy.20m.com /HiramMaxim.html (292 words)

	Sir Hiram Maxim
		Sir Hiram was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine and is said to have had a penchant for all things mechanical even as a child.
		Maxim refined a single-barrelled gun which could fire anything between 300 and 500 rounds per minute, depending on which authority on the subject you trust.
		Since Maxim died in 1916, he was not to see the terrible carnage that marked the 1914-18 World War in which untold thousands died under fire from the by then commonplace machine gun.
	www.mycamden.co.uk /camden/community-Maxim.htm (491 words)

	Dartford Technology: Engineering - Sir Hiram Maxim
		Hiram Maxim was born on 5th February 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, USA.
		Hiram used the local mills as a source of inspiration; in fact it was these same mills that prompted the emergence of his first invention.
		Hiram Maxim became a naturalised British subject and was knighted in 1901.
	www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /technology/engin_maxim.shtml (1087 words)

	Maxim, Hiram Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine, and spent his early life in various apprenticeships.
		The Maxim gun of 1884 used the recoil from the shots to extract, eject, load, and fire cartridges.
		Maxim's first patent, when he was 26, was for a curling iron.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Maxim/1.html (219 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Hiram Maxim
		Maxim did and sold his machine guns to European countries on the eve of World War I, changing the nature of combat.
		Born in 1840 in Sangersville, Maine, Maxim was apprenticed at 14 to a carriage maker.
		Maxim's innovation was to harness the recoil power of each bullet, a force strong enough to eject the used cartridge and draw in the next one.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/maxim_hi.html (508 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Hiram Maxim
		Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), an inveterate inventor who designed the machine gun bearing his name, was born on 5 February 1840 in Maine, USA the eldest son of a mechanic.
		Maxim successfully sold his new weapon to the British army, although there were many in the army's high command who could not foresee a practical use for the weapon in a war of movement (although it was used to impressive effect by the British during the Matabele war in 1893-94).
		Sir Hiram Maxim died in London on 24 November 1916, while the Great War was still raging, at the age of 76.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/maxim.htm (416 words)

	Hiram Maxim - Wikipedia
		Hiram Maxim begann als Kutschenbauer in Maine, USA und Instrumentenbauer.
		1894 konstruierte Maxim ein von zwei Dampfmaschinen angetriebenes FluggerÃ¤t, das sich sogar kurz in die Luft heben konnte, allerdings mangels praktikabler Steuerung zur Sicherheit von FÃ¼hrungsschienen gehalten wurde.
		1901 wurde Maxim von KÃ¶nigin Viktoria in den Ritterstand erhoben.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiram_Maxim (249 words)

	Maxim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, 1840–1916, was born near Sangerville, Maine.
		Hiram Percy Maxim, 1869–1936, son of Sir Hiram, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained in the United States.
		The most spectacular was the Maxim silencer for explosive weapons (1908), but perhaps more useful were silencers for gasoline engines and the like.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Maxim.html (237 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Maxim Machine Gun
		Invented by Hiram S. Maxim in the U.S. in 1884, the Maxim Gun comprised the world's first automatic machine gun.
		The Maxim Gun was water-cooled (via a jacket around the barrel which held approximately one gallon) and fed from fabric belts; the German version of the gun, the Maschinengewehr, utilised 250-round belts.
		Maxim triumphantly demonstrated his new invention to, firstly, the British Army - he had moved to London shortly before developing the machine gun - in 1885.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mgun_maxim.htm (347 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The name of Hiram Stevens Maxim (Feb 5, 1840-Nov 4, 1916) is immediately associated with the invention and development of the machine gun.
		Maxim's ancestors originally lived in the county of Kent, England and were French Huguenots.
		In the drawing the body, B, is the conductor, l and k are the platinum washers, m and m are the washers of soft carbon, o is a platinum screw or bolt, t is a nut, and c is the lead wire.
	home.frognet.net /~ejcov/hsmaxim.html (2018 words)

	FLYING MACHINES - Hiram Stevens Maxim
		Hiram Maxim, who was born at Brockway's Mills, Maine, made a fortune from his invention of the Maxim machine gun, and he used a good bit of that fortune to explore heavier-than-air flight.
		On the Maxim Biplane Test-Rig's third test run, on July 31, 1894, with Maxim and a crew of three aboard, it lifted with such force that it broke the reinforced restraining track and careened for some 200 yards, at times reaching an altitude of 2 or 3 feet above the damaged track.
		Hiram Maxim designed and built a biplane in 1910 but it was unsuccessful.
	www.flyingmachines.org /maxim.html (382 words)

	Maxim machine gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Maxim machine gun was the world's first practical fully automatic single barrel machine gun.
		It was invented by Hiram Maxim in 1883, and was adopted by virtually every combatant nation in World War One and called by many different names.
		A later, lighter model of the five man Maxim was ominously nicknamed the "Devil's Paintbrush" in reference to the sight of whole rows of charging soldiers being cut down in a line.
	www.portaljuice.com /maxim_machine_gun.html (243 words)

	Maxim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gricean maxims, conversational principles theorized by philosopher Paul Grice
		Maxim Reality (born 1967), member of British hard dance/rave act The Prodigy
		Maxim IC, a manufacturer of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maxim (161 words)

	Fairground: Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machines. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Maxim became a naturalised British subject and was knighted in 1901 for his work on the machine gun, but predictably wanted more from life.
		But the old maxim "necessity is the mother of invention" could never have found a better application than to Hiram Maxim's quest for flight, and he was quick to spot the potential for profit by producing a flying machine for amusement purposes.
		Maxim's flying ambitions were destined never to get off the ground as he was overtaken by other pioneers, the Wright Brothers, Samuel Franklin Cody and Louis Bleriot.
	www.thegalloper.com /backstories/1202hiram.html (1185 words)

	Sir Arthur Keith + Sir Hiram Maxim
		Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, carbon filaments for light bulbs, a gun silencer and a flying machine.
		The Maxim gun was adopted by the British Army in 1889 after an initial rejection, and variations were used by other European militaries.
		Maxim was a naturalized British subject and was knighted in 1901 by Queen Victoria for his inventions.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0205b-almanac.htm (491 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Who Was the First to Fly
		Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916) was born in the United States but spent most of his adult life in England.
		Maxim began these efforts in the late 1880s, and he had succeeded in constructing a massive biplane test rig by 1893.
		Maxim's test rig does deserve credit for achieving flight while under power, but the aircraft could not be controlled and the flight was not sustainable.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0159.shtml (3207 words)

	Maxim gun - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whilst its predecessors, such as the Gatling and Gardner guns had a manual crank to power the mechanism for loading, firing and ejecting their cartridges, the Maxim gun used energy from its ammunition.
		On the Western Front, 90 percent of bullet related casualties were inflicted by Maxim-type guns, including the Vickers machine gun which was an improved and redesigned Maxim introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remained in service until 1968.
		Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, and carbon filaments for light bulbs.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Maxim_Gun (556 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hiram Maxim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Maxim, Hiram Percy (1869-1936), American inventor, son of Anglo-American inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.
		Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (1840-1916), Anglo-American engineer and inventor, born in Sangerville, Maine.
		American Radio Relay League, organization founded by inventor Hiram Percy Maxim in 1914.
	encarta.msn.com /Hiram_Maxim.html (163 words)

	Hiram Maxim - The first man to fly a heavier than air machine
		To each side of the centre section were placed wings, which Maxim termed 'aeroplanes' thus using the expression for the first time.
		That means that the Maxim flier moved forwards 2 feet as it descended from its stable (unrestrained) flight path.
		Heavier than Air flight is termed as "the ability of a vehicle to lift its own weight using its own power," The lifting of the flyer to engage the restraining rail nine inches higher shows without doubt that the vehicle was supporting its own weight and thus flying.
	www.bondle.co.uk /personal_pages/jon/maxim (1021 words)

	Hiram Stevens Maxim, Sir Biography / Profile of Hiram Stevens Maxim, Sir Biographies
		The American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916) is chiefly known for the automatic rifle, or machine gun, that bears his name.
		Hiram Stevens Maxim was born near Sangerville, Maine, on Feb. 5, 1840.
		Moving to Boston, Maxim was employed in a scientific instrument shop, during which time (1866) he received his first patent, for an improved curling iron.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/hiram-stevens-maxim-sir (218 words)

	No. 1738: Maxim's Airplane
		Hudson and Hiram Maxim were actually two people -- brothers born in Maine in 1840 and 1853.
		Older brother Hiram was best known for his machine gun, but he invented all kinds of things -- explosives included.
		Maxim may not have succeeded in flying; but, by 1915, airplanes were indeed flying the skies of France.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1738.htm (542 words)

	Today in Technology History - Feb 5
		Two British inventors share February 5, 1840 as their birthday: Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the machine gun, and John Dunlop, the inventor of the inflatable tire.
		Hiram Stevens Maxim was born in Maine, in the United States.
		Maxim made several other inventions related to weapons.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2003/feb5.htm (268 words)

	Making the Modern World - Sir Hiram Maxim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The son of a farmer, Maxim was apprenticed to a coachmaker.
		Maxim's other inventions included smokeless gunpowder, a re-setting mousetrap, a hair-curling iron, a pneumatic gun and a plane.
		His Maxim Gun Co. was eventually absorbed into Vickers Ltd. Maxim became a British subject in 1900 and was knighted in 1901.He died in 1916 and did not witness the carnage wrought by the then commonplace machine gun during the First World War.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0084 (268 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)