American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun, patented in 1884. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Invented the first automatic machine gun, a landmark of mechanical engineering design.
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Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 - 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun.
Machine Gun (Wikipedia)
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The first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim.
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Was Hiram Maxim American or British, and what is he known for?
American-born British inventor, creator of the Maxim gun, the first automatic machine gun.
Hiram Stevens Maxim was born in 1840 as an American and is recorded as an American-born British inventor. He is best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun, which was patented in 1884. He died in 1916.
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