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Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (died 1916)
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Hiram Maxim
American-British inventor (1840–1916)
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim laid claim to inventing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)