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While mental hygienists, efficiency experts and city officials have been bewailing the maddening effects of city noise, Hiram Percy Maxim has been manufacturing noise mufflers at
Hartford, Conn. Last week he announced that his Maxim Silencer Co., of which he is president and his only son Hiram
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was developed in parallel with the firearm silencer by Maxim in the early 20th century, using many of the same techniques to provide quieter-running engines, and in many
English-speaking countries automobile mufflers are called silencers.
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American Projectile Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, and tinkered nights on his own internal combustion engine. He admitted his ignorance of engine developments in Germany by
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During the early 1900s, Hiram Percy Maxim designed and patented gun silencers. His efforts were directed toward both military and sporting arms and resulted in his forming the Maxim
Silencer Company, Hartford,
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From 1902 through 1909, Maxim was largely focused on inventing, building, marketing, and selling firearm silencers. He also developed mufflers for internal combustion engines using much the same technology.
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823:"Hiram Maxim Dies. Invented Silencer. Device, Originally Used for Firearms, Now Employed More in Other Ways. Was patron of Amateurs. Headed Radio and Film Groups Followed in Footsteps of Father and Uncle"
873:. As an ardent wireless amateur Mr. Maxim is remembered by veteran experimenters of pre-war days by the musical tone of his quench spark gap which spelled out the call letters of his pioneer station.
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In 1899, with Maxim at the controls, the Pope
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published in 1933, an overview of contemporary science that surmised life existed outside of earth; as well as two books published in 1936:
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plays Maxim in the film, with Don Ameche and Myrna Loy playing his parents, Hiram
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Colonel Albert Pope and His
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Carriage Days. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962 (1936), p. 12, 47.
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was adapted in 1946 into a comedy-drama film produced by
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Hiram Percy Maxim Collection, Northeast Historic Film
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