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* Hudson Maxim ( 1853 – 1927 ), inventor and chemist who is the namesake of the district's Hudson Maxim School.
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The advent of smokeless powder ( developed by, among others, Hiram's brother Hudson Maxim ), helped to change this.
In addition, he was the nephew of Hudson Maxim, an inventor of explosives and ballistic propellants.
Hudson Maxim said the Hudson Munitions Company only had an option on the supposed fuel and wouldn't buy all rights unless tests confirmed claims.
Hudson Maxim ( February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927 ), was a U. S. inventor and chemist who invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder, Thomas Edison referred to him as " the most versatile man in America ".
After some disputes, Hudson Maxim returned to the USA and developed a number of stable high explosives, the rights of which were sold to the DuPont company.
Hudson and 1853
In 1853, Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator and the Otis Elevator Company, opened the first elevator factory in the world on the banks of the Hudson near what is now Vark Street.
In 1853, the Marl was harvested and transported to other parts of the state and to the Keyport docks via the Freehold Marl Company Railroad ( now the Henry Hudson Trail ).
In 1852 the Erie leased the two companies along with the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad, and Erie trains begin operating to the New Jersey Rail Road's Jersey City terminal on November 1853 after a third rail for wide gauge was finished.
The completion of Hudson Turner's Domestic architecture of the Middle Ages next engaged his attention, three volumes being published ( 1853 – 1860 ).
Home travelled between Hartford, Springfield, and Boston during the next few months, and settled in Newburgh by the Hudson River in the summer of 1853.
Hudson and –
* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.
For the re-reading by Benjamin Hudson, see Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 127 – 129 and 152 – 157 ; Dumville, " Chronicle of the Kings of Alba ", p. 77.
* Peter Hudson – Australian Rules Footballer, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history, when playing for Glenorchy he kicked 616 goals in 81 games with some records stating he instead kicked 769 goals ; he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame
* 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York.
* 1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
* 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay ; they are never heard from again.
* 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
* 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
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