Hiram Percy Maxim was an American inventor and radio pioneer who co-founded the American Radio Relay League with Clarence D. Tuska. Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer. He also developed mufflers for internal combustion engines.
- Occupation
- inventor, mechanical engineer, amateur radio operator, manager
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 2, 1869, September 2, 1869
- Died
- February 17, 1936
