See also:

• SIR

SIR HIRAM See also:

• STEVENS,
• STEVENS, A
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1818-1875)
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1828-1906)
• STEVENS, HENRY (1819—1886)

STEVENS See also:

• SIR HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM (184o- )

MAXIM (184o- )  , Anglo-See also:

• AMERICAN

American engineer and inventor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Sangerville, See also:

• MAINE
• MAINE, ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON
• MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (1822–1888)

Maine, U.S.A., on the 5th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1840 . After serving an See also:

• APPRENTICESHIP (from Fr. apprendre, to learn)

apprenticeship with a coachbuilder, he entered the See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine See also:

• WORKS

works of his See also:

• UNCLE

uncle, See also:

• LEVI, HERMANN (1839-1900)
• LEVI, LEONE (1821-1888)

Levi See also:

• STEVENS,
• STEVENS, A
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1818-1875)
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1828-1906)
• STEVENS, HENRY (1819—1886)

Stevens, at See also:

• FITCHBURG

Fitchburg, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, in 1864, and four years later he became a draughtsman in the Novelty See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

Iron Works and See also:

• SHIPBUILDING

Shipbuilding See also:

• COMPANY

Company in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City . About this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he produced several inventions connected with See also:

• ILLUMINATION

illumination by See also:

• GAS

gas; and from 1877 he was one of the numerous inventors who were trying to solve the problem of making an efficient and durable incandescent electric See also:

• LAMP (from Gr. Xag ras, a torch, Xaµaav, to shine)

lamp, in this connexion introducing the widely-used See also:

• PROCESS

process of treating the See also:

• CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

carbon filaments by See also:

• HEATING

heating them in an See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere of See also:

• HYDROCARBON

hydrocarbon vapour . In 188o he came to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, and soon began to devote himself to the construction of a machine-See also:

• GUN

gun which should be automatically loaded and fired by the See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy of the recoil (see MACHINE-GUN): In See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to realize the full usefulness of the weapon, which was first exhibited in an underground range at See also:

• HATTON, JOHN LIPTROT (1809-1886)
• HATTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER (1540–1591)

Hatton See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, See also:

• LONDON

London, in 1884, he See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of employing a smokeless See also:

• POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

powder, and accordingly he devised maximite, a mixture of trinitrocellulose, nitroglycerine and See also:

• CASTOR

castor oil, which was patented in 1889 . He also undertook to make a flying machine, and afternumerous preliminary experiments constructed an apparatus which was tried at See also:

• BEXLEY
• BEXLEY, NICHOLAS VANSITTART, BARON (1766-1851)

Bexley See also:

• HEATH
• HEATH, BENJAMIN (1704-1766)
• HEATH, WILLIAM (1737—1814)

Heath, See also:

• KENT
• KENT, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
• KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748)

Kent, in 1894 . (See See also:

• FLIGHT

FLIGHT.) Having been naturalized as a See also:

• BRITISH

British subject, he was knighted in 1901 . His younger See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

Hudson See also:

• MAXIM, SIR HIRAM STEVENS (184o- )

Maxim (b . 1853), took out numerous See also:

• PATENTS

patents in connexion with See also:

• EXPLOSIVES

explosives .