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Maxim Silencer Company Photographs 2015.288 Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Historical Note ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 6 - Page 2 - Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 Summary Information Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: Maxim Silencer Company Title: Maxim Silencer Company photographs ID: 2015.288 Date [inclusive]: circa 1900-1909 Date [bulk]: 1943-1945 Physical Description: 29 item(s) General Physical 15 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; Description: 2.5 x 9 in. mounted on board. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 3.25 x 5.5 in. mounted on board. 5 photographic prints : b&w ; 4 x 10in. 2 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 6 x 7.75 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 3.75 x 8 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 3.5 x 6.25 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 4 x 6 in. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 7 x 8 in. 1 diagram : b&w ; 6 x 10 in. mounted on board. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The Maxim Silencer Company was the first company to manufacture gun silencers for commercial use. The company was founded in 1908 as the Maxim Silent Firearms Company by Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936) in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1912 Maxim incorporated his business as the Maxim Silencer Company. Maxim was an engineer and inventor. This small collection consists of photographs of rifles with silencers, the company's World War II Army E. Navy award ceremony, and a few images of Hiram Percy Maxim and his son Hiram Hamilton Maxim. ^ Return to Table of Contents Historical Note The Maxim Silencer Company was the first company to manufacture gun silencers for commercial use. The company was founded in 1908 as the Maxim Silent Firearms Company by Hiram Percy Maxim - Page 3- Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 (1869-1936) in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1912 Maxim incorporated his business as the Maxim Silencer Company. Hiram Percy Maxim was an engineer and inventor. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1886 he worked for several companies as a mechanical and electrical engineer, primarily with automobile engines. He invented the silencer, patented in 1908 and the muffler for gasoline engines, patented in 1909. Maxim was a hunter and a target shooter and wanted a way to shoot at his home without disrupting his neighbors. A Maxim Silencer Company brochure explains how the silencer works: "They [the gasses] are made to whirl around inside the Silencer. This whirling forces the gas to fly out from the center by centrifugal force leaving a central space, just the same as when water is whirled around in a set bowl, a hole or space forms at the center. This leaves the space for the bullet to make its passage. The gas cannot pass through this space, until it slows down. This causes it to discharge into the atmosphere gradually. This absolutely prevents noise and also reduces recoil over two-thirds." During World War I the Maxim Silencer Company produced silencers for the United States Armed Forces snipers and sharpshooters. Commercial sales of the silencer ended in a few years prior to a 1934 law prohibiting private ownership. During World War II, the company produced engine-exhaust silencers for tanks, submarines and other vessels. After the war the company focused on manufacturing seawater- distillation units for ships. The company also produced snowblowers and automobile mounted snow plows. Maxim was not the only inventor in the family; his father Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916) invented the Maxim Machine Gun and his uncle Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) was the inventor of smokeless gunpowder. Maxim married Josephine Hamilton (dates unknown), a suffragist in 1898. The couple had two children, a son Hiram Hamilton Maxim (1900-1992) and a daughter, Percy Maxim Lee (1906-2002). His son was also an inventor and his daughter was an active civic and political leader. Like his father H. Hamilton Maxim attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation in 1921 he returned to Connecticut to work at the Maxim Silencer Company. When Maxim died in 1936, H. Hamilton Maxim took over as President until his retirement in 1960. Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with fifty-nine patents. Maxim was also passionate about aviation, sailing and radio. He served as chairman of the Hartford Aviation Commission and aided in the construction of Brainard Field, a municipal aviation port in Hartford. He developed the first practical seawater evaporator for providing ships with fresh water. He operated an amateur radio station out of his home and co-founded the American Radio League. Both Maxim and his son worked on improving the portable Ham radio. In 1956, the Maxim Silencer Company was sold to Emhart Manufacturing Company. Today the company operates as Maxim Silencers Inc. out of Houston, Texas. ^ Return to Table of Contents - Page 4- Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 Scope and Content This small collection consists of photographs of rifles with silencers, the company's World War II Army E. Navy award ceremony, and a few images of Hiram Percy Maxim and his son Hiram Hamilton Maxim. There are seven images of rifles with silencers against a pure white background, one on display and one diagram of two rifles with silencers. There is one photograph of a man, possibly Hiram Percy Maxim using a machine gun with a Maxim silencer. There is a photograph of Hiram Percy Maxim with his son Hiram Hamilton Maxim holding a .30-50 Winchester carbine with a Maxim Gun Silencer. On the other side of the photograph is a photographic copy of a target with bullet holes made by H. Hamilton Maxim at age nine in 1910, singed by two witnesses. There is also a photograph of H. Hamilton in the parlor of the family's home shooting the rifle at the target. Hiram Percy Maxim is pictured holding his first gun silencer on a Winchester .30-30 carbine. Accompanying him in the photograph is J. Wills Goodridge, Sam Britt (mechanic), Mr. Jenkins (Patent Attorney), and Hiram Hamilton Maxim. There is an exterior view of the company building at 85 Homestead Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut in 1943 and an image of Leslie Knapp using a snow thrower. There are thirteen photographs from the Army E. Navy Award ceremony for the Maxim Silencer Company, which show the exterior of the company building, employees being presented awards, employees in the audience watching the ceremony, and then some group photographs of employees and executives. ^ Return to Table of Contents Administrative Information Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library - Page 5- Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 Access Restrictions This collection is open for research. Existence and Location of Copies View this collection online in the Hagley Digital Archives. ^ Return to Table of Contents Related Materials Separated Materials Maxim Silencer Company records (Accession 2621), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library. ^ Return to Table of Contents Controlled Access Headings • Firearms • Silencers (Firearms) • Maxim family Collection Inventory Title/Description Instances Hiram Percy Maxim and his first gun silencer with group, circa box 1 folder 1 1908 Scope and Contents Includes J. Wills Goodridge, Hiram Hamilton Maxim... Hiram Percy Maxim and Hiram Hamilton Maxim holding rifle with box 1 folder 2 silencer, 1910 February 5 - Page 6- Maxim Silencer Company photographs 2015.288 Scope and Contents Rifle is a .30-30 Winchester carbine. Includes a photograph copy of a target with bullet holes made by H. Hamilton Maxim at age 9, signed by two witnesses his father and F.F. Chudoba. Hiram Hamilton Maxim shooting at a target in the parlor, 1910 box 1 folder 3 Scope and Contents Parlor at 550 Prospect Avenue, Hartford. Rifles with silencers, circa 1910s box 1 folder 4 Scope and Contents In the diagram of two rifles, one is labeled "Colt", the second has "Winchester" written in pencil below it. The rifle in the photograph is unidentified. Rifles with silencers, circa 1910s box 1 folder 5 Scope and Contents Two rifles, one automatic, and one view of just the end of the gun with the
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