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Re: Trivia
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2008, 11:33:56 AM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 30, 2008, 11:21:05 AM
The one known to have survived was auctioned a couple (?) years ago, I think Christie's handled it, it brought  $ 9 million.

What industry did Hiram Maxim start out in?

Coachbuilding?
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2008, 12:14:57 PM »
Which firearms manufacturer is one of the oldest family owned businesses in the world?
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2008, 12:15:21 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 30, 2008, 11:21:05 AM
The one known to have survived was auctioned a couple (?) years ago, I think Christie's handled it, it brought  $ 9 million.

What industry did Hiram Maxim start out in?


Quote from: Timothy on December 30, 2008, 11:33:56 AM
Coachbuilding?


Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine in the United States of America. He became an apprentice coachbuilder at the age of 14 and ten years later took up a job at the machine works of his uncle, Levi Stephens, at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He subsequently worked as an instrument maker and as a draughtsman.

Maxim is also credited with inventing the common mousetrap and, as a long-time sufferer from bronchitis, he also patented and manufactured a pocket menthol inhaler and a larger "Pipe of Peace", a steam inhaler using pine vapour, that he claimed could relieve asthma, tinnitus, hay fever and catarrh.[6] After being criticised for applying his talents to quackery, he protested that: "it will be seen that it is a very creditable thing to invent a killing machine, and nothing less than a disgrace to invent an apparatus to prevent human suffering".
Maxim developed and installed the first electric lights in a New York City building (the Equitable Insurance Company, 120 Broadway) in the late 1870s.
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2008, 12:15:50 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 30, 2008, 12:14:57 PM
Which firearms manufacturer is one of the oldest family owned businesses in the world?

Berretta.

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Re: Trivia
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2008, 12:18:29 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on December 30, 2008, 12:15:50 PM
Berretta.

 8)

Correct, circa 1526...

FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA S.p.A.

Didn't Maxim also design the first recoil operated machine gun?
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2008, 12:26:50 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 30, 2008, 12:18:29 PM
Correct, circa 1526...

FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA S.p.A.

Didn't Maxim also design the first recoil operated machine gun?


Maxim was reported to have said: "In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility' ".

As a child, Maxim had been knocked over by a rifle's recoil, and this inspired him to use that recoil force to automatically operate a gun. Between 1883 and 1885 Maxim patented gas, recoil and blow-back methods of operation. After moving to England, he settled in a large house formerly owned by Lord Thurlow in West Norwood where he developed his design for an automatic weapon, using an action that would close the breech and compress a spring, by storing the recoil energy released by a shot to prepare the gun for its next shot. He thoughtfully ran announcements in the local press warning that he would be experimenting with the gun in his garden and that neighbours should keep their windows open to avoid the danger of broken glass.

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Re: Trivia
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2008, 05:20:18 PM »
I thought Berreta was the oldest manufacturing business, period, family owned or not. I have to look into it.

Kongo Gumi, a Buddhist temple construction company founded in 578, ranked as the world’s oldest family firm. But in 2006, Kongo Gumi closed, burdened with decreasing demand and $343 million in debt. Over 1,400 years in business.  :o
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2008, 06:51:23 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 30, 2008, 11:21:05 AM
The one known to have survived was auctioned a couple (?) years ago, I think Christie's handled it, it brought  $ 9 million.

What industry did Hiram Maxim start out in?


Gas Lighting fixtures
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2008, 07:27:43 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 30, 2008, 06:51:23 PM

Gas Lighting fixtures

Hiram's only schooling was what he gleaned from five years of learning in a one-room Sangerville schoolhouse.  At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to Daniel Sweat, an East Corinth carriage maker who had recently returned to Sangerville.  Hiram went to work for Mr. Sweat in Abbott and it was there that he perfected his first invention - an automatic mousetrap that soon rid the Abbot grist mill of mice.  That invention was soon followed by others, including a silicate blackboard.  Shortly afterward, young Maxim traveled through Canada, New England, and New York State, where he met Spencer D. Schuyler, founder of the United States Electric Lighting Co.  Schuyler hired Maxim as his chief engineer and soon the former sheep-tender was busy working on dynamos, arc lamps and other electrical devices.  In an impressive list of 271 patents filed, Maxim invented a prototype of a curling iron, an apparatus for demagnetizing watches, magno-electric machines, devices to prevent the rolling of ships, eyelet and riveting machines, aircraft artillery, a flying machine, smokeless powder, an aerial torpedo gun, coffee substitutes, and various oil, steam, and gas engines.
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2008, 07:41:04 PM »
Who developed the first .30-30 cartridge?
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