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Hiram Maxim Holding One Of His Flying Machine Engines, Weighing 300Lb One Of The Lightest Engines Of It's Time. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, 1840 1916....

Hiram Maxim Holding One Of His Flying Machine Engines

Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer, 1904. Whilst resident in America, Maxim took out patents for, among other things,...

Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer, 1904. Artist: Spy

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', by J. Morgan Richards and Sons Ltd. Early 19th century. Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace' and inhaler , with accessories, in original...

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', by J. Morgan Richards and Sons Ltd. Early 19th century.

Sir Hiram Maxim�s 'First Kite of War'. Maxim was an Anglo-American inventor who conducted large scale experiments in aeronautics. His flying machine...

Maxim�s flying machine, c 1894.

Portrait of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim with his Maxim Gun. Undated photograph.

Sir Hiram Maxim with his Maxim Machine Gun

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Preparing for a ride on Maxims flying machine, Baldwins Park, Kent, 1894.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Sir Hiram Maxim with his fists raised, c 1900.

Photograph of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim with his famed Maxim Gun. Undated photograph.

Hiram Maxim With Maxim Gun

Diagram. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was...

Engine from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, studio portrait, c 1894.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim began his career as a coach builder at an engineering works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. From 1867 he took out patents for...

Maxim with machine gun, c 1880s.

Sir Hiram Maxim , engineer and inventor of the machine gun, 1912.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Maxims flying machine, part assembled, Baldwins Park, Kent, 1893-1894.

Contemporary model of the Maxim flying machine of 1894, isolated from its background by an artist. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a...

The Maxim flying machine, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It...

Engine from Maxims flying machine, 1894

Photograph showing Maxim examining the wreckage. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found...

Maxim�s flying machine after its �flight� of 31st July 1894.

Photograph taken during the assembly of the aircraft. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously...

Propeller installation on Maxim�s flying machine, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxim�s flying machine after its �flight� of 31st July 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Outrigger wheels on Maxims flying machine during assembly, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxims flying machine on its launch track, Bexleyheath, Kent, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Looking down on Maxims partially assembled flying machine, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This...

The end of a ride on Maxims flying machine, Baldwin�s Park, Kent, 1894.

Photograph of a steam boiler which reportedly achieved a pressure of 320 pounds per square inch. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying...

The steam boiler from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxims flying machine on its launch track, seen from behind, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It...

Launch track for Maxim�s flying machine, Baldwin�s Park, Kent, 1893-1894.

Photograph, probably posed with a model. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by...

An impression of a Maxim multiplaned flying machine in flight, 1890s.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Preparing for a ride on Maxims flying machine, Baldwins Park, Kent, 1894.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was the...

Launch track for Maxim�s flying machine, Baldwin�s Park, Kent, 1893-1894.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Maxim�s flying machine on its launch track, 1894.

Diagram. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was...

Forced circulation system from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Diagram. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was...

High pressure by pass from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Diagram. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was...

Steam pressure regulator from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Diagram. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was...

Connecting rod from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxim�s wrecked flying machine after its brief lift off, 31st July 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. The...

Model of Maxim�s flying machine on a whirling arm test jig, c 1890s.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This...

A ride in progress on Maxims flying machine, Bexleyheath, Kent, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine at Baldwins Park, Bexleyheath, Kent, in 1910. He had previously found fame...

Maxims 1910 aeroplane that never flew, 1910.

Diagram. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It was...

Gas generator from Maxims flying machine, 1894.

Photograph of the aircraft under construction in the hangar, with the steam boiler prominent. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying...

Maxims flying machine under construction, 1894.

Photograph, probably posed with a model. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by...

Impression of a Maxim multiplaned flying machine on its launch track, 1890s.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxims flying machine on its launch track, Bexleyheath, Kent, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine at Baldwins Park, Bexleyheath, Kent, in 1910. He had previously found fame...

The engine of Maxims 1910 aeroplane that never flew, 1910.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxims flying machine modified to give visitors rides on the track, 1894.

Photograph. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun....

Maxims flying machine modified to give visitors rides on the track, 1894.

Device developed by American inventor and engineer Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim and J W Dunne about 1904-1906, which was tested at the Crystal Palace,...

Maxim�s experimental attachment for Crystal Palace giant roundabout, c 1904.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1910. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. It had three...

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim with his 1910 aeroplane that never flew, c 1910.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim designed and built this flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine gun. This was the...

Maxim standing on the framing of his 1894 machine outside the hangar, 1894.

The cover of �The Conquest of the Air�, subtitled �the romance of aerial navigation�, by John Alexander, with preface by Sir Hiram Maxim, .

Two men in a hot-air balloon basket; book cover, 1902.

Photograph by Henry Van der Weyde, 182 Regent Street, London. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim began his career as a coachbuilder at an engineering works in...

Sir Hiram Maxim, American engineer and inventor, c 1900.

Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son Ltd of a caricature by Leslie Ward, better known as Spy, from �Vanity Fair� magazine. Sir Hiram...

Sir Hiram Maxim, American engineer and inventor, 1904.

Whilst resident in America, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim took out patents for, among other things, gas apparatus and electric lamps. In 1881, he emigrated...

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American engineer and inventor, c 1900.

Illustration of an arc light invented by Sir Hiram Maxim , showing the mechanism for controlling the carbon points as they are worn away. Maxim was...

Mechanism of Maxims light, 1880s.

Illustration of an arc light invented by Sir Hiram Maxim , founder and chief engineer of the United States Electric Lighting Company. From 'Marvels...

The Maxim light, 1880s.

American engineer and inventor Hiram Maxim designed and built a flying machine in 1893-1894. He had previously found fame by inventing the machine...

�Sir Hiram Maxim and his Machine�, 1902.

This lamp was made in 1882 by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. On July 20 Hiram Stevens Maxim was granted U.S. Patent No. 230,310 for the electric incandescent...

Maxim light bulb, c 1883.

This lamp was made in 1882 by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. On July 20 Hiram Stevens Maxim was granted U.S. Patent No. 230,310 for the electric incandescent...

Maxim light bulb, c 1883.

This lamp was made in 1882 by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. On July 20 Hiram Stevens Maxim was granted U.S. Patent No. 230,310 for the electric incandescent...

Maxim light bulb, c 1883.

This lamp was made in 1882 by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. On July 20 Hiram Stevens Maxim was granted U.S. Patent No. 230,310 for the electric incandescent...

Maxim lamp, M-shaped filament, 21.3.1882, No.1601.

White ash tree, 18 inches in diameter, cut down in a few seconds with a small Maxim gun in the presence of Chinese officials�

Maxim demonstrating his small Maxim gun.

The bullet-proof shield for the Maxim gun.

The bullet-proof shield for the Maxim gun.