MAXIM, Hiram Percy II Hiram Percy Maxim II, 72, of Lyme, formerly of Farmington, died at home on Saturday (January 12, 2008) after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was born September 28, 1935 ...

Hiram Percy Maxim II, 72, of Lyme, formerly of Farmington, died at home on Saturday (January 12, 2008) after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was born September 28, 1935 in Hartford to the ...

The words “Maxim” and “peace” somehow don’t seem to go together. Hiram Maxim’s most famous invention-the machine gun-has killed countless thousands of men, from Matabeleland to Manchuria and Mafeking ...

Early in March of 1991, I was explaining to my United States History class at Fitchburg High School their upcoming assignment, which would be a 10-page paper on a historical topic of their choice.

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan signed an unconditional surrender aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, formally ending World War II. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 5, 1840 – November 24, 1916) ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916) was an engineer and inventor. In 1878, while serving as Chief Engineer of the United States Electric Lighting Company, ...

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Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram S. Maxim and Lewis Howard Latimer. These four men were the greatest inventors and innovators of their day. They were all born in the late 1840s, and ...