هيرام ستڤن ماكسيم Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (و. 5 فبراير 1840 - ت. 24 نوفمبر 1916)، مخترع أمريكي-إنگليزي، أشهر اختراعاته مدفع ماكسيم الرشاش.

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المولد

العائلة

الهجرة والحصول على لقب فارس

المهنة

مدفع ماكسيم الرشاش

1895 .303 tripod mounted Maxim machine gun. Photo: Max Smith

Maxim machine gun mounted on a Dundonald gun carriage

الاختراعات

آلات الطيران

Maxim's flying machine

Captive Flying Machines

The Sir Hiram Maxim Captive Flying Machines operating at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 2006

Grahame-White, Blériot, and Maxim Company

الفلسفة والدين

الوفاة

Gravestone of Sir Hiram Maxim

المؤلفات

Artificial and Natural Flight^[1]
Li Hung Chang's Scrapbook^[2]
A New System of Preventing Collisions at Sea^[3]
My Life. With 11 Text Illustrations and 10 Plates.^[4]
Monte Carlo facts and fallacies^[5]

براءات الاختراع

U.S. Patent 208٬252 - Electric lamp
U.S. Patent 230٬310 - Electric lamp
U.S. Patent 230٬953 - Electric lamps
U.S. Patent 230٬954 - Process for removing air from globes of electric lamps
U.S. Patent 230٬309 - Electric lamp
U.S. Patent 234٬835 - Electrical lamp
U.S. Patent 237٬198 - Process of manufacturing carbon conductors
U.S. Patent 244٬277 - Electric Lamp
U.S. Patent 247٬083 - Process of Manufacturing Carbons
U.S. Patent 247٬084 - Incandescent Electric Lamp
U.S. Patent 247٬085 - Process of Manufacturing Carbon Conductors
U.S. Patent 247٬380 - Electric Lamp
U.S. Patent 255٬308 - Electrical meter
U.S. Patent 277٬846 - Process of Manufacturing Carbons for Incandescent Lamps
U.S. Patent 283٬629 - Electric Lamp
U.S. Patent 405٬239 - Apparatus for the Manufacture of Filaments for Incandescent Lamps
U.S. Patent 405٬170 - Manufacture of Filaments for Electric Lamps
U.S. Patent 430٬212 - Manufacture of explosive
U.S. Patent 618٬703 - Apparatus for Manufacturing Filaments for Electric Lamps
U.S. Patent 618٬704 - Method of Manufacturing Filaments for Electric Lamps

Maxim, Hiram Stevens & Louis Silverman, "Improvements in the Firing Mechanism of Automatic Guns", GB 189700207, issued October 30, 1897
Maxim, Hiram Stevens, "Improvements in Automatic Guns", GB 189607468, issued February 27, 1897, gas action for machine guns
Maxim, Hiram Stevens, "Improvements in Automatic Machine Guns", GB 189607045, issued March 13, 1897, breech mechanism of machine gun

Hiram Percy Maxim (son):

U.S. Patent 594٬805 - Motor vehicle
U.S. Patent 757٬941 - Motor vehicle running gear
U.S. Patent 772٬571 - Electric motor vehicle
U.S. Patent 845٬106 - Motor road vehicle