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Hiram Percy Maxim ( September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936 ) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder of the American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ).
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* Hiram Percy Maxim ( 1869-1936 ), radio operator
Their children were: Hiram Percy Maxim ; Florence Maxim, who married George Albert Cutter, and Adelaide Maxim, who married Eldon Joubert, Ignacy Jan Paderewski's piano tuner.
Hiram Percy Maxim followed in his father's and uncle's footsteps and became a mechanical engineer and weapons designer as well, but he is perhaps best known for his early amateur radio experiments and for founding the American Radio Relay League.
Hiram Percy would later author a biography on his father called, " A Genius in the Family.
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 ).
ARRL is a non-profit organization, and was founded in May 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim of Hartford, Connecticut.
Hiram Percy Maxim, founder of the ARRL, ca.
In 1914, Hiram Percy Maxim of Hartford, Connecticut, was a prominent businessman, engineer, and inventor ( notably of the Maxim Silencer ).
Hiram Percy Maxim died in 1936.
Staff at the organization headquarters maintain and operates station W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, as a living memorial to the " Father of Organized Amateur Radio ".
* Schumacher, Alice Clink, Hiram Percy Maxim, Father of Amateur Radio, Schmachers: Great Falls, MT, 1970.
He married Josephine Hamilton, the daughter of the former Maryland Governor William T. Hamilton December 21, 1898, in Hagerstown, Maryland, and had a son, Hiram Hamilton Maxim, and a daughter, Percy Hamilton Maxim, who married John Glessner Lee, the grandson of John J. Glessner.
Hiram Percy Maxim was returning to his home in Hartford, Connecticut, in February, 1936, from a trip to California to visit the Lick Observatory.
* Schumacher, Alice Clink, Hiram Percy Maxim, Father of Amateur Radio, Great Falls, MT: Schumachers, 1970.
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To give an example, W1AW, the American Radio Relay League's Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station in Newington, Connecticut, is found in grid locator.
His daughter Josephine married the inventor Hiram Percy Maxim.
He was the brother of Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun and uncle of Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Silencer.
Hiram and Maxim
* 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor ( Maxim gun ) ( d. 1916 )
In 1885, Hiram S. Maxim developed the maxim gun, the model of the modern-day machine gun.
These weapons were still powered by hand ; however, this changed with Hiram Maxim's idea of harnessing recoil energy to power reloading in his Maxim machine gun.
The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.
* November 24 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American firearms inventor ( b. 1840 )
Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3. 5 tons, with a 110-foot ( 34-meter ) wingspan that was powered by two 360-horsepower ( 270-kW ) steam engines driving two propellers.
The next person to enter Zaharoff's story was Hiram Maxim.
He encouraged Hiram Maxim in his attempt to build a flying machine, and later claimed that he and Maxim were the first men to be lifted off the earth, when Maxim tested his first " flying machine " at Bexley in 1894.
Inventors Augustus Applegath, Sir Hiram Maxim and Jack Wall, inventor of the Crayford focuser, which is incorporated into many modern telescopes were also residents.
It is the birthplace of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( 1840 – 1916 ) and Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet ( December 23, 1874 – July 7, 1943 ).
In 1894, British MP Sir Charles Dilke observed in the House of Commons: " The only person who has up to the present time benefited from our enterprise in the heart of Africa has been Mr. Hiram Maxim "
* Hiram Maxim, who developed his machine gun in the garden of his house in Norwood Road ( Serbia House, now demolished )
Hiram S. Maxim had designed a self-loading rifle in the 1880s, but was preoccupied with machine guns.
Sir Hiram Maxim made a number of experiments in Britain, eventually building an enormous machine with a wingspan of, powered by two advanced lightweight steam engines which delivered 180 hp ( 134 kW ) each.
The first automatic, self-powered machine gun was invented by an American born Briton, Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884 and first displayed in 1885.
* Hiram Stevens Maxim ( 1840-1916 ), inventor
The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884.
A prototype of the Maxim gun was given by Hiram Maxim to the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in 1886-1890, under the leadership of Henry Morton Stanley.
Hiram and September
* September 26 – Hiram Wesley Evans, Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard ( d. 1966 )
In September 2004, Thomas V. Chema was appointed as the 21st president of Hiram College.
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.
Their third child, Hiram, was born on September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive.
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.
In September 1830, after Hiram Page claimed to have received revelations for the church, a revelation to Smith stated that " no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this church excepting my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., for he receiveth them even as Moses.
On September 2, 1831, the new family moved into John Johnson's home in Hiram, Ohio.
Hiram Rhodes Revels ( September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901 ) was the first non-white to serve in the United States Senate.
They were named after U. S. Army Major Hiram Martin Chittenden, the Seattle District Engineer for the Corps of Engineers from April 1906 to September 1908.
Soon after Hiram lodge, F. & A. M., ceased to exist, in September, 1822, a dispensation was granted for the institution of Phoenix lodge, which was organized in the following year.
Hiram Kyle Davies ( born September 9, 1983 in Decatur, Georgia ) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.
Hiram Berdan ( September 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 ) was an American engineer, inventor and military officer, world-renowned marksman, and guiding force behind and commanding colonel of the famed United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiments during the American Civil War.
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