Maxim, Hiram Stevens

Maxim, Hiram Steven, Sir (1840—1916). American expatriate in Engl who specialized in Ord and expls. His major inventions included (1) design and constrn of the modern machine gun (1884—89), (2) gelatinization of NC using acet, either alone or in mixt with eth or ale (BritP of 1888), (3) addition of an oil, such as castor oil, to a mixt of NC and NG to obtain a slow burning smokeless powd for small cal weapons, (4) prepn of smokeless powd in the form of sin e-perforated rods, plain or with exterior channels ruiming parallel to the long... 

Americans invented the machine gun Hiram Stevens Maxim, a Yankee from Maine Colonel Isaac Lewis, a West Pointer, director of the U.S. Army coast artillery school William J. Browning, a gunmaker and businessman and their predecessor Richard Jordan Gatling, who correctly located the machine gun among automated systems. It bears the same relation to other firearms, Gatling noted, that McCormack s Reaper does... 

Hiram Stevens Maxim studied whatever seientifie books came in his way, with talent for drawing and painting and an uncanny facility in handling tools, quickly became an adept at several trades. First he went to Montreal and other cities in Canada to woik as carriage painter, cabinet-maker and mechanic. 

Mottelay, P.F. (1920). The life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim. Lane London. P http //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram Stevens Maxim/ ... 

Machine gun (Hiram Stevens Maxim) Maxim patents a machine gun that can fire up to six hundred bullets per minute. 

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