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 ...

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Hiram-Maxim singer-guitarist Dave Taha admits he’s surprised that the local industrial/indie rock band has lasted as long as it has. After all, the group, which upon forming also included ...

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 ...

AMONG the great mechanical inventors of last century, none was known to a wider public than Sir Hiram Maxim, who was born on February 25, a century ago. When he came to Europe in 1881 to attend ...

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 ...

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 ...