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...must to all men, Death came last week to Hudson Maxim, 74, inventor of deadly explosives. It came slowly, quietly?preceded by 24 hours' coma. It found him at his home at Maxim Park, Lake Hopatcong, N. J. It had tried unsuccessfully, many times before, to find him in his laboratory. Although several of his assistants had been blown to bits, he emerged from all his dangerous experiments with only his left hand missing...
...nephew, Hiram Percy Maxim, invented the Maxim silencer. His older brother, the late Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, produced the Maxim machine gun which was standard equipment for most of the armies of the world before the War. Sir Hiram once accused Hudson of posing as the inventor of this gun and attempting to infringe upon his (Hiram's) name by setting up a company Under the name of "H. Maxim:" The two brothers were never reconciled after this...
...wrote facilely on a strange variety of subjects: The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language, Defenseless America, Dynamite Stories, The Rise of An American Inventor (his autobiography...
Before his body was cremated, his friends?Garrett Putnam Serviss of Tenafly, N. J., author and scientist; Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson, inventor and engineer; Francis I. duPont?paid him many a lofty tribute. No religious service marked the brief ceremonies, since Inventor Maxim was a member of no church. Said Mrs. Maxim: "I am arranging things as I think he would have liked them...
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...