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American inventor Hiram Percy Maxim ( not to be confused with Hiram Stevens Maxim, Hiram Percy's father, and the inventor of the Maxim Machine Gun ), is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful models circa 1902 ( patented 30 March 1909 ).
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As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )
* 1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman, co-founded Western Electric ( d. 1901 )
* 1811 – Elisha Otis, American inventor and businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company ( d. 1861 )
* 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor ( d. 1971 )
* 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor ( d. 1879 )
* 1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of Baseball ( d. 1892 )
* 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )
Richard Buckminster " Bucky " Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Burrhus Frederic " B. F ." Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990 ) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.
* Cyrus McCormick, American inventor who developed the modern mechanical reaper
Douglas Carl Engelbart ( born January 30, 1925 ) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer.
* 1765 – Eli Whitney, American inventor ( d. 1825 )
* 1905 – Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor ( d. 1976 )
Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor ( d. 1967 )
Dean L. Kamen ( born April 5, 1951 ) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
Eli Whitney ( December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825 ) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
Edwin Howard Armstrong ( 18 December 1890 – 31 January 1954 ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.
* 1819 – Christopher Sholes, American inventor ( d. 1890 )
* 1838 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, ( d. 1914 )
* 1859 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer and inventor ( d. 1896 )
* 1809 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor ( d. 1884 )
* 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor ( Maxim gun ) ( d. 1916 )
* 1884 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman ( d. 1961 )
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* 1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician ( d. 1880 )
* 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U. S. Congress.
* 1831 – Hiram Bond Everest, American co-founder of The Vacuum Oil Company ( d. 1913 )
* 1816 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founder of Canadian club whiskey ( d. 1899 )
* 1906 – Hiram Leong Fong, American politician ( d. 2004 )
* January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat ( b. 1903 )
* November 24 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American firearms inventor ( b. 1840 )
** Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan ( b. 1881 )
* December 11 – Hiram Paulding, American admiral ( d. 1878 )
* February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U. S. Congress.
* July 21 – Hiram Walden, American politician ( b. 1800 )
* October 20 – Hiram Paulding, American admiral ( b. 1797 )
Hiram Bingham, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission Loyalty Review Board, referred to the new rules he was obliged to enforce as " just not the American way of doing things.
That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be ( according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5 ).
Varian Fry, the American journalist, and Hiram Bingham IV, the American Vice-Consul in Marseilles, ran a rescue operation to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of Europe to the US by providing them with forged visas to the US.
They relied on the life-saving visas, illegally issued by the American diplomat Hiram Bingham IV, who aided in this way approximately 2, 500 other Jewish refugees.
* Hiram Bingham IV, 1903 – 1988, American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France, during World War II ; rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Duryea Borough was named in honor of Hiram Duryea, an American Civil War general and owner of extensive tracts of land in sections of the country.
* Hiram Barton ( 1810 – 1880 ), American politician
Hank Williams (; September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953 ), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time.
Hiram Warren Johnson ( September 2, 1866August 6, 1945 ) was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California ; he served as the 23rd governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.
The first automatic, self-powered machine gun was invented by an American born Briton, Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884 and first displayed in 1885.
The most successful American sculptor of his era, Hiram Powers, left America in his early thirties to spend the rest of his life in Europe, where he adopted a conventional style for his idealized female nudes such as Eve Tempted.
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