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	Hiram Percy Maxim -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 - February 17, 1936) was founder of the (Click link for more info and facts about American Radio Relay League) 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 (An engineering university in Cambridge) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		He is noted as the inventor of the "Maxim Silencer" or (An electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents) Suppressor for firearms as well as of a silencer (or (A scarf worn around the neck) muffler) for gasoline engines.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/hiram_percy_maxim.htm (187 words)

	Maxim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, 1840–1916, was born near Sangerville, Maine.
		His brother, Hudson Maxim, 1853–1927, was born in Orneville, Maine, and remained in the United States.
		Hiram Percy Maxim, 1869–1936, son of Sir Hiram, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained in the United States.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Maxim.html (237 words)

	Articles - Hiram Stevens Maxim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
	www.cateringa.com /articles/Hiram_Stevens_Maxim (276 words)

	Hiram Maxim
		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.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/h/hi/hiram_maxim.html (187 words)

	Hog River Journal
		Maxim, son of inventor Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the first automatic machine gun, was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1886.
		Maxim calculated that the top speed the Mark I needed was 12 miles per hour on a level road and designed a gear reduction system that translated the engine's much higher speed into usable speeds for the carriage.
		Maxim suggested that, for efficiency and ease of changing tires, all four wheels be the same size, but Atwood refused to implement the modification on aesthetic grounds.
	www.hogriver.org /issues/v03n02/horseless_era.htm (1894 words)

	Hiram Percy Maxim
		Courtesy of Hiram Percy Maxim II The Old Chief, Hiram Percy Maxim, was journeying to the southwest on a vacation with his wife when he contracted a throat infection.
		Maxim's had had so profound an influence joiined his family in the last sad duties---while amateurs around the world hushed key and mike with bowed heads and many an honest tear.
		Maxim was a lovable and remarkable woman, a brilliant one, actively interested in the civic matters of her community, as befitted the daughter of a former governor of Maryland, She was a pioneer suffragist, a leader of Hartford's city commissions.
	www.earlyaviators.com /emaxim.htm (653 words)

	Maxim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936), founder of the American Radio Relay League
		Maxim (Patriarch) (born 1914), Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
		Maxim's de Paris is a Parisian restaurant of the Belle Epoque.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maxim (203 words)

	Hiram Stevens Maxim, Sir Biography / Biography of Hiram Stevens Maxim, Sir Biography Biography
		Hiram Stevens Maxim was born near Sangerville, Maine, on Feb. 5, 1840.
		Maxim represented the electric lighting company at the Paris Exposition of 1881, where he was honored for still another invention, his electric pressure regulator.
		Maxim was a brilliant, artistic, and accomplished man, although it was difficult for others to get along with him.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-hiram-stevens-maxim-sir (642 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)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Maxim Sir Hiram Stevens
		Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (1840-1916), American-born British engineer and inventor, born in Sangerville, Maine.
		The first machine-gun with calibre larger than small arms was the Hotchkiss revolving cannon, invented by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, an American,...
		Maxim, Hiram Percy (1869-1936), American inventor, son of the Anglo-American inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Maxim_Sir_Hiram_Stevens.html (93 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Our intention is to clone Hiram, utilizing techniques pioneered at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, by taking a cell from his crypt extracting its DNA, and inserting into an unfertilized human egg (oocyte), through the now-proven biological process called nuclear transfer.
		The fertilized egg, now the zygote of Hiram Percy Maxim, will be implanted into the womb of a young woman CW operator (who has volunteered of her own accord), who will then bring baby Hiram to term.
		Hagerstown, Maryland has the remains of Hiram Percy Maxim at its Rose Hill Cemetery, and parts of his body are still intact: his bone marrow, his hair, his foreskin.
	www.radions.net /again.htm (325 words)

	American Radio Relay League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) was founded in May 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim.
		In addition the ARRL operates station W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, as a living memorial to the "Father of Organized Amateur Radio".
		Even though they are part of the United State, Alaska and Hawaii are considered separate DX countries for competition purposes because of their distance from other geographic and political entities.
	www.factsite.co.uk /en/wikipedia/a/am/american_radio_relay_league.html (558 words)

	Maxim
		Maxim, name of a family of inventors and munition makers.
		1869–1936, son of Sir Hiram, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained in the United States.
		Maxime Faget - Maxime Faget Born: 1921 Space Capsule Design.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0832307.html (251 words)

	Hiram Percy Maxim -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Son and nephew of famous inventors, Maxim graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then in Boston, at age 16 and by 1890 was superintendent of the American Projectile Company plant at Lynn, Mass.
		U.S. dramatist and poet Percy MacKaye wrote numerous community entertainments known as masques and poetic plays, noted for their use of historical and contemporary folk literature.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051539?tocId=9051539 (588 words)

	Maxim on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hiram Percy Maxim, 1869-1936, son of Sir Hiram, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained in the United States.
		Maxim Announces Initiation of New Apoptosis Screening Campaign and Publication of Manuscript in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
		MAXIM MAGAZINE Unveils Their ``Hot 100'' for 2005; Eva Longoria Crowned #1 This Year.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Maxim.asp (596 words)

	ARRLWeb: W1AW Endowment Program
		Yes, the dream of a flagship station for Amateur Radio is alive at W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, serving you every day as it has for decades.
		Maxim's genius had created an organization that would grow and flourish long after he was gone.
		The Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station embodies the history and traditions so important to all of us.
	www-stlg.remote.arrl.org /endoww1aw.html (948 words)

	Hiram Percy Maxim - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hiram Percy Maxim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hiram Percy Maxim - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hiram Percy Maxim.
		Here you will find more informations about Hiram Percy Maxim.
		The orginal Hiram Percy Maxim article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hiram-Percy-Maxim.html (218 words)

	temples.com - Phil Temples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Inventor, radio pioneer, early aviation pioneer; ARRL Founder, used the nom de plume "The Old Man." Invented the Maxim silencer, the first mass produced firearms silencer.
		He was no doubt more famous for this invention than his involvement in ham radio.
		Maxim also invented the automobile muffler, and was a pioneer in air compressor technology.
	www.temples.com /article.php?op=Print&sid=969 (55 words)

	Sir Hiram Maxim -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The eldest son of a farmer who was a locally notable mechanic, Maxim was apprenticed at 14 to a carriage maker.
		They were Ader in France, Phillips and Maxim in England, and Langley in the United States.
		The technical principle behind the machine gun is the use of the force from the explosion of one cartridge to power a series of mechanical linkages to load and fire the following round.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051540?tocId=9051540 (510 words)

	Ham Radio Forum :: View topic - stroke 135 designator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NEWINGTON, CT, Aug 26, 2004--Members of the amateur community are invited to help celebrate the 135th birthday anniversary of the League's co-founder and first president Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW.
		Hiram Percy Maxim was born September 2, 1869, and he died February 17, 1936, in Colorado of complications stemming from a throat infection (this was in the days before readily available and effective antibiotics).
		Maxim Memorial Station W1AW will be on the air for the 135th birthday anniversary event and will identify as W1AW/135.
	www.hamforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=2258 (505 words)

	Maxim
		Gorki, Maxim - Gorki, Maxim (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) author Birthplace: Nizhni Novgorod, Russia Born: 1868...
		Maxim Pharmaceuticals Apoptosis Research Discovery Published in PNAS.
		Maxim Pharmaceutical Phase 3 Trial for Advanced Malignant Melanoma Fails to Meet Primary Endpoint; Conference Call Scheduled for September 20, 2004, 7:30 AM Pacific Time.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0832307.html (368 words)

	The history of amateur radio - 6
		The next year Hiram Percy Maxim, now 1AW and the ARRL organized the first international DX-party, the precursor of international DX contests.
		Like in 1894 when Marconi believed that he could pass over the sea using shortwaves, and succeeded, 30 years later amateurs demonstrated that ionospheric refraction (waves enter into the ionospheric layers and are then reflected to the ground) could enable worldwide communication by shortwaves.
		Take for example the very short 30m band which is subject to many conflicts from some national administrations who seem not to understand that IARU was established to protect their interests and the ones of the amateur community, not to manage conflicts between administrations.
	www.astrosurf.org /lombry/qsl-ham-history6.htm (3380 words)

	Hiram Percy Maxim's Ham Radio Station in 1915 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Aerial of Hiram Percy Maxim at his home in Hartford, Conn.
		Two aerials are arranged, one for sending on 200 meter wave length for distances less than ten miles, and one for sending on 495 meter wave length for distances in excess of ten miles.
		The receiving station outfit consists of a large loose coupler by means of which I can get very accurate tuning, an Audion Detector and variable condenser.
	www.eht.com /oldradio/history/maxim/maxim1915.htm (264 words)

	Find A Grave - Search Results for "MAXIM"
		"The Old Man" Hiram Percy Maxim was the Father of organized amatuer (HAM) radio.
		In 1914 the American Radio Relay League was organized and launched by the famous inventor and "ham operator" Hiram Percy Maxim whose amateur radio call-sign was W1AW.
		He was also the inventor of the Maxim silencer which was the first mass produced firearms silencer, the automobile muffler, and was a pioneer in air compressor technology.
	www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=name&firstName=&lastName=MAXIM (143 words)

	W6JAY is YHOTY
		A medal-winning transmitter hunter and member of the Hospital Disaster Support Communications System (HDSCS) of Orange County California has been named as a 2004 winner of the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial scholarship award.
		The Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award is given annually to a licensed radio amateur under the age of 21.
		It is intended to provide a tangible reward to those deserving young amateurs who contribute their time, skills and energies daily through their commitment to Amateur Radio.
	members.aol.com /joemoell/yhoty.html (635 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His rotary spark gap transmitter "Old Betsy" has a place of honor at the ARRL Headquarters.
		H.P. Maxim wrote an amusing account of his youth in the book "A Genius in the Family: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Through a Small Son's Eyes." H.P. Maxim was also a pioneering automobile inventor, which he recounted in his book "Horseless Carriage Days."
		Run a web search on Hiram Percy Maxim.
	www.everybase.com /Hiram_Percy_Maxim (239 words)

	Hiram Maxim - TheFiringLine Forums
		As we know, Hiram Stevens Maxim perfected the machine gun a little before the turn of the century.
		As I was looking through my American Radio Relay League handbook today, I saw a picture of Hiram Percy Maxim, the grandfather of ham radio.
		Sir Maxim also had a brother named Hudson who invented an explosive, a smokeless powder, and a self-propelled torpedo.
	www.thefiringline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=31359 (193 words)

	Hiram Stevens Maxim - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Having become a naturalized Briton, Maxim was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1901 for his inventions, many of which had military applications.
		A Tale of Two Knights: Sir Hiram Maxim (http://www.sangerville.lib.me.us/hiram.html)de:Hiram Maxim
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	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Hiram_Maxim (236 words)

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