1878 - becomes chief engineer to the United States Electric Lighting Company: the first such company to be formed in the United States
1884 - opens a workshop in Hatton Garden, London, for gunnery design and making.
1884 - founds the Maxim Gun Company; preparing a design for a fully automatic gun; in order to block any competition he assiduously patented every conceivable device concerning the firing mechanism.
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Inhaler, Maxim's, English, 1850-1910
Glass inhaler, Maxim's "Pipe of Peace"
Maxim's glass inhaler, "Pipe of Peace," used with the drug "Dirigo"
Cotton wool and gauze for Maxim's menthol inhaler
Full Size Screw Propeller for Sir Hiram Maxim's Flying Machine.
Brass pipe
Two boxed sets of Sir Hiram Maxims 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910
Maxim's Pipe of Peace and menthol inhaler
Silver medal presented to Hiram S. Maxim for his paper on ‘Experiments in Aeronautics'
