You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Nov. 24, 1916: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, a native of the Piscataquis County ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

While mental hygienists, efficiency experts and city officials have been bewailing the maddening effects of city noise, Hiram Percy Maxim has been manufacturing noise mufflers at Hartford, Conn. Last ...