HUDSON MAXIM - AUTOGRAPH 11/04/1920 - HFSID 18121
Price: $300.00
HUDSON MAXIM
Hudson Maxim signs a card in black ink.
Signature: "With/Compliments and/Best Wishes/Hudson Maxim/Nov.
4-1920", 5¼x3¼ card. Hudson Maxim began his career in armaments and
explosives in his brother Hiram's gun factory in New England. In 1888, he
began developing new explosives and by 1890. Maxim invented a new
smokeless powder. He helped his brother found a dynamite and powder
factory in New Jersey that year: the following year, they parted company. In
1892, he began his own munitions factory in New Jersey, the heart of the United
States' manufacturing at that time, where he developed a smokeless cannon
powder. Maxim sold his company to E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company in
1897: however, he remained as a consulting engineer. Later accomplishments
include shock resistant torpedoes, delayed-action fuses and a propulsion
substance fro torpedoes. These inventions greatly aided the Allied effort in
World War I. Machine guns manufactured by his brother changed the weaponry
of warfare for all time. Slightly creased and toned at edges. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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