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Hiram Maxim was born on Febuary 5th 1840 in the town of Sngervill Maine (no pictures were taken of him as a infant
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at age 14 he became an apperentice coachbuilder
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10 years later he took a job in a machine works of his uncle Levi stephens at Fitchburg massachusetts
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maxim said in 1882 if you want to make a pile of money make something that will allow these europeans to cut eachothers throats more easily maxim was knocked down by the recoil of a rife when he was a boy this got him thinking he could use that to automaticly power a gun from 1883 to 1885 he tried and patened gas recoil and blow-back operrations of use... moving to europe he desghed a gunaoutomatic gun that whould have spring the spring whould compress and breech the spring using the recoil
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After moving to a large house in england he began to test the gun he even tod the neibors to keep their windows open for danger of broken glass.When fineshed maxim founded a compant called (SON AND MAXIM) ad improved on the degin and sold to both sides in WW1 and by his 71st birthday 1911 the maxim machine gun was the standard brittish machine gun.
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But sadly on this date maxim died in his sleep in london he was buried in west norwood cemetary as ww1 raged on he was buired next to lady sarha maim and his grandson LT. colenal maxim joubert.
