First World War
First World War: Who's Who Hiram Maxim
This site provides a biography of Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), the inventor of the machine gun.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Hiram Maxim
One-page profile of influential innovator, Hiram Maxim, whose vision and ideas created the world's first portable machine gun first used by the British Army.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America? Hiram Maxim
At the Paris Exhibition in 1881, a man told Maxim that if he wanted to make a fortune, he should invent a machine that would help these Europeans kill each other. Maxim did and sold his machine guns to European countries on the eve of...