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About Hiram Stevens Maxim
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 the lightbulb.
Everything about Hiram Stevens Maxim →- Occupation
- inventor, businessperson, gunsmith
- Citizenship
- United States, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 5, 1840
- Died
- November 24, 1916