Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville, Maine in 1840. He became a coachbuilder in an engineering works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
In 1881, whilst visiting Paris a man told Maxim: "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility”. This triggered Maxim to work on producing an effective machine gun.
In 1885 he was successful in his endeavour as he demonstrated the world's first automatic portable machine gun.
After the success of his machine gun, Maxim continued with his experiments. Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, the gun silencer, a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, carbon filaments for light bulbs and a flying machine. Hiram Maxim died in 1916.
In 1881, whilst visiting Paris a man told Maxim: "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility”. This triggered Maxim to work on producing an effective machine gun.
In 1885 he was successful in his endeavour as he demonstrated the world's first automatic portable machine gun.
After the success of his machine gun, Maxim continued with his experiments. Maxim also invented a pneumatic gun, the gun silencer, a smokeless gunpowder, a mousetrap, carbon filaments for light bulbs and a flying machine. Hiram Maxim died in 1916.
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