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Maxim family
American family of inventors, best known for work on firearms and explosives. Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840–1916), invented the Maxim machine gun (c.1884) and contributed to the development of cordite. He patented hundreds of other inventions. His brother Hudson Maxim (1853–1927), a chemist, developed explosives much used in World War II, and notably the high explosive maximite. Hiram's son Hiram Percy Maxim (1869–1936), invented the Maxim silencer for firearms and the Maxim muffler for automobiles.
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