Hiram Stevens Maxim
1840-1916
American-born British inventor who revolutionized warfare in 1884 with the invention of the world's first automatic, portable machine gun. The Maxim recoil-operate...
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Hippolyte Pixii
1808-1835
French engineer and instrument maker who created the first electrical generator. In 1832, following Hans Christian Oersted's discoveries, Pixii constructed a hand-cran...
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Pixii was born in France and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a builder of scientific instruments. He had a short life, dying at the age of 27 in 1835. Pixii's claim to fame came as a resu...
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A member of a noteworthy family of mechanics and draftsmen, Hiram Maxim, the creator of the first practical automatic machine gun, also experimented with a steam-powered flying machine in 1894. At age...
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Hiram Stevens Maxim
Hippolyte Pixii