Hiram Collection

John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. Creator: Unknown
John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. How the tricks are performed - " A coach-horn or megaphone is useful for picking things up

Hiram Powerss Sculpture of the Greek Slave, ca. 1850. Creator: Unknown
Hiram Powerss Sculpture of the Greek Slave, ca. 1850

Greek Slave, 1851. Creator: Hugh Owen
Greek Slave, 1851

A Forest Cascade at Hiram, Maine, 1859. Creator: Henry Hitchings
A Forest Cascade at Hiram, Maine, 1859

Types of Arms - The Maxim Gun, 1900. Creator: Gregory & Co
Types of Arms - The Maxim Gun, 1900. From " South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. II", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1900]

Looking Across Sugar Beet Fields, Platte River Valley, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, c1930s Creator
Looking Across Sugar Beet Fields and Sugar Plant, Platte River Valley, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, c1930s. Scotts Bluff National Monument, named after Hiram Scott

Maxim machine gun, c1895. The engineer Hiram Maxim developed the first fully automatic machine gun (1884) which he offered to the United States War and Navy departments

Hiram Stevens Maxim, (1840-1916). American-born British inventor and engineer, 1894-1907
Hiram Stevens Maxim, (1840-1916). American-born British inventor and engineer, Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun in 1884

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Gun, (c1924). Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916) invented the first portable, fully automatic machine gun in 1884

Henry Morton Stanleys African expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, 1886-1889 (1887). Emin Pasha, who was in the Egyptian service and Governor of the Equatorial Province

Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer, 1904. Artist: Spy
Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer, 1904. Whilst resident in America, Maxim (1840-1916) took out patents for, among other things, gas apparatus and electric lamps

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