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Hiram Maxim

Hiram Maxim
Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 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 the lightbulb.

5 February 1840

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