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Hiram Percy Maxim death in 1936...
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February 18, 1936
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, February 18, 1936
* Hiram Percy Maxim death (1st report)
* Famous inventor - Firearm silencer
This 20 page newspaper has a two column headline on page 3: "Hiram P. Maxim, Inventor Of Gun Silencer, Dies in West" with subheads and photo. (see)
Tells of the death of famous inventor Hiram Percy Maxim.
Other news of the day. Light browning with minor margin wear, otherwise good.
wikipedia notes: Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was cofounder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and originally had the amateur call sign 1AW, and later W1AW, which is now the ARRL Headquarters club station call sign. His rotary spark-gap transmitter "Old Betsy" has a place of honor at the ARRL Headquarters.
Maxim tinkered with internal combustion engines before contacting the Pope Manufacturing Company about the possibility of manufacturing a gasoline-powered automobile. Albert Augustus Pope hired Maxim to run his Motor Vehicle Division. In 1899, with Maxim at the controls, the Pope Columbia, a gasoline-powered automobile, won the first closed-circuit automobile race in the US at Branford, Connecticut. Columbia later began manufacturing an electric automobile.
Category: The 20th Century
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