Sir Hiram Maxim

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Sir Hiram Maxim was a British-American inventor best known for creating the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic firearms.

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instanceOf human
activeYears 1860s–1910s
awardReceived Knight Bachelor
Order of the Bath (honorary, disputed/attributed)
linked to: Order of the Bath
birthDate 1840-02-05
birthPlace Sangerville, Maine, United States
burialPlace West Norwood Cemetery, London, United Kingdom
child Florence Maxim
Hiram Percy Maxim
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countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
deathDate 1916-11-24
educatedIn self-taught engineering
employer Maxim Gun Company
ethnicGroup Yankee American
familyName Maxim
fieldOfWork aviation
electrical engineering
firearms engineering
founded Maxim Gun Company
genre technical innovation
givenName Hiram
honorificPrefix Sir
influenced development of automatic weapons
military tactics in late 19th century
knownFor Maxim gun
early machine gun design
experiments in heavier-than-air flight
languageSpoken English
movement arms industry innovation
name Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
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notableEvent demonstration of Maxim gun in the 1880s
notableIdea fully automatic recoil-operated firearm
notableInvention Maxim gun
silencer for gas and steam pipes
steam-powered flying machine
notableWork Maxim machine gun
book "My Life" (autobiography)
occupation engineer
inventor
patent automatic machine gun cooling system
improvements in electric lighting
inhaler for medical use
mousetrap design
recoil-operated machine gun mechanism
placeOfDeath Streatham, London, England, United Kingdom
relative Hudson Maxim
religion agnosticism
residence London, England, United Kingdom
linked to: London, England
significantDate 1884 (completion of practical Maxim gun)
spouse Jane Budden
title Knight Bachelor

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West Norwood Cemetery hasNotableBurial Sir Hiram Maxim
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West Norwood Cemetery hasNotableBurial Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
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West Norwood Cemetery hasNotableBurial Sir Hiram Maxim, weapons designer
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West Norwood Cemetery hasNotableBurial Sir Hiram Maxim, British-American inventor
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Hiram Maxim name Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
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Hiram Maxim child Hiram Percy Maxim
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Maxim machine gun inventor Hiram Stevens Maxim
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Maxim machine gun namedAfter Hiram Maxim
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Hiram hasNotableBearer Hiram Percy Maxim
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Flying Machines manufacturer Sir Hiram Maxim
Flying Machines designer Sir Hiram Maxim
Sangerville, Maine hasBirthplaceOf Hiram Maxim
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Sangerville, Maine hasNotablePerson Hiram Maxim
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Maxim gun inventor Hiram Stevens Maxim
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Maxim gun namedAfter Hiram Maxim
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Maxim Gun Company foundedBy Hiram Stevens Maxim
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Maxim Gun Company namedAfter Hiram Stevens Maxim
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Maxim Gun Company hasInventor Hiram Stevens Maxim
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Florence Maxim childOf Hiram Maxim
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Florence Maxim hasFather Hiram Maxim
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Hudson Maxim sibling Hiram Maxim
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Hudson Maxim relative Hiram Percy Maxim
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Jane Budden spouseOf Hiram Maxim
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Jane Budden associatedWith Hiram Maxim
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Jane Budden associatedWith Maxim gun inventor Hiram Maxim
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Jane Budden spouseFullName Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
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MG 08 designer Hiram Maxim
subject linked to: MG 08 machine gun
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