| 单词 | maxim, hiram |
| 释义 | Maxim, HiramMaxim, Hiram (Stevens)(1840–1916) engineer, inventor; born near Sangerville, Maine. Mechanically gifted, he learned several trades as a young man and obtained his first patent, for a hair-curling iron, in 1866. By 1884, working in London, he had produced a devastatingly effective automatic machine gun capable of firing 660 rounds per minute. Every major power adopted the Maxim gun. The company he established to manufacture his invention, with several mergers, eventually became the British defense firm, Vickers Ltd. |
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