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The bulbs at the Mercantile Company were those of the U.S. Electric Lighting Company, a company driven forward by their irrepressible and energetic engineer, Hiram Maxim. Edison called Maxim’s ...

While mental hygienists, efficiency experts and city officials have been bewailing the maddening effects of city noise, Hiram Percy Maxim has been manufacturing noise mufflers at Hartford ...

A popular weapon among these groups is the Maxim M1910/30 machine gun, of which Ukraine has reportedly taken 30,000 out of storage. In 1884, Hiram Stevens Maxim unveiled the world's first machine ...

The following article is of special interest when compared with the letter of Mr. Hiram Percy Maxim, published in the Scientific American of September 18th last. Although Mr. Maxim approached the ...

There are silencers for handguns, rifles, and shotguns. Hiram Percy Maxim developed the first commercially successful silencer. It’s no surprise he also developed the first car muffler—another ...