Sir Hiram Maxim

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Sir Hiram Maxim was a British-American inventor best known for creating the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic firearms.

Aliases (6)

Hiram Maxim ×53
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ×2
Hiram Percy Maxim ×1
Hiram Stevens Maxim ×1
Sir Hiram Maxim, British-American inventor ×1
Sir Hiram Maxim, weapons designer ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human →
activeYears	1860s–1910s →
awardReceived	Knight Bachelor → Order of the Bath (honorary, disputed/attributed) →
birthDate	1840-02-05 →
birthPlace	Sangerville, Maine, United States →
burialPlace	West Norwood Cemetery, London, United Kingdom →
child	Florence Maxim → Hiram Percy Maxim →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom → United States of America →
deathDate	1916-11-24 →
educatedIn	self-taught engineering →
employer	Maxim Gun Company →
ethnicGroup	Yankee American →
familyName	Maxim →
fieldOfWork	aviation → electrical engineering → firearms engineering →
founded	Maxim Gun Company →
genre	technical innovation →
givenName	Hiram →
honorificPrefix	Sir →
influenced	development of automatic weapons → military tactics in late 19th century →
knownFor	Maxim gun → early machine gun design → experiments in heavier-than-air flight →
languageSpoken	English →
movement	arms industry innovation →
name	Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim →
notableEvent	demonstration of Maxim gun in the 1880s →
notableIdea	fully automatic recoil-operated firearm →
notableInvention	Maxim gun → silencer for gas and steam pipes → steam-powered flying machine →
notableWork	Maxim machine gun → book "My Life" (autobiography) →
occupation	engineer → inventor →
patent	automatic machine gun cooling system → improvements in electric lighting → inhaler for medical use → mousetrap design → recoil-operated machine gun mechanism →
placeOfDeath	Streatham, London, England, United Kingdom →
relative	Hudson Maxim →
religion	agnosticism →
residence	London, England, United Kingdom →
significantDate	1884 (completion of practical Maxim gun) →
spouse	Jane Budden →
title	Knight Bachelor →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
West Norwood Cemetery → West Norwood Cemetery ("Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim") → West Norwood Cemetery ("Sir Hiram Maxim, weapons designer") → West Norwood Cemetery ("Sir Hiram Maxim, British-American inventor") →	hasNotableBurial
Hiram Maxim ("Hiram Percy Maxim") →	child
Maxim machine gun ("Hiram Stevens Maxim") →	inventor
Hiram Maxim ("Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim") →	name
Maxim machine gun ("Hiram Maxim") →	namedAfter