Add to ORKGWhat\u27s in a Picture? piece on a photo by Livermore Falls cameraman F. A. Wendell of the Maxim family in 1898. Hiram Maxim, in the photo, invented the machine gun some 14 years before the picture was taken at a family reunion in Wayne. Nine years before the Wright brothers, famous flight, Maxim, of Sangerville, built a powered aircraft that flew 600 feet. In the quest for an electric light bulb, he also developed a carbon filament that rivaled Edison\u27s. Before his death in 1916, he said he wished his peaceful inventions had been more widely known
Dated September 1937, this photograph shows the home of Anton Becker, one of the founders of the Ral...
Photograph of Samuel Fall of Lebanon, an inventor who around the end of the nineteenth-century tried...
This 1932 photograph depicts two men in Lansing, Michigan who work for The Olds Motor Vehicle Compan...
A profile of Hiram Stevens Maxim of Sangerville, who invented the machine gun and was knighted by Qu...
The Bell & Howell Filmo 16 mm Camera, in use by Hiram Percy Maxim, an American radio pioneer and inv...
Editorial on Hiram Maxim, a machinist from Dover-Foxcroft who became a millionaire through his prize...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece on a 1909 picture of a gas-powered log hauler designed by James Peave...
This is a reproduction of a portrait of inventor Wilbur Wright from Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900-1912. Wil...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece about a 1958 photograph staged to look like a scene from the 1880s or...
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Realization of the need to l...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece on a photo by Fred Philpot of a draft team rolling snow in Springvale...
What\u27s in a Picture? 1930s photograph, with detailed caption, of Harry Jones, Maine\u27s first ...
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "For a man whose phenomenal g...
Postcard colour tinted photograph titled 'Water Chute and Flying Machine, Southport.' Hiram Maxim's ...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece on photographer Philip A. Gordon\u27s 1937 picture of a display of El...
Dated September 1937, this photograph shows the home of Anton Becker, one of the founders of the Ral...
Photograph of Samuel Fall of Lebanon, an inventor who around the end of the nineteenth-century tried...
This 1932 photograph depicts two men in Lansing, Michigan who work for The Olds Motor Vehicle Compan...
A profile of Hiram Stevens Maxim of Sangerville, who invented the machine gun and was knighted by Qu...
The Bell & Howell Filmo 16 mm Camera, in use by Hiram Percy Maxim, an American radio pioneer and inv...
Editorial on Hiram Maxim, a machinist from Dover-Foxcroft who became a millionaire through his prize...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece on a 1909 picture of a gas-powered log hauler designed by James Peave...
This is a reproduction of a portrait of inventor Wilbur Wright from Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900-1912. Wil...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece about a 1958 photograph staged to look like a scene from the 1880s or...
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Realization of the need to l...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece on a photo by Fred Philpot of a draft team rolling snow in Springvale...
What\u27s in a Picture? 1930s photograph, with detailed caption, of Harry Jones, Maine\u27s first ...
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "For a man whose phenomenal g...
Postcard colour tinted photograph titled 'Water Chute and Flying Machine, Southport.' Hiram Maxim's ...
What\u27s in a Picture? piece on photographer Philip A. Gordon\u27s 1937 picture of a display of El...
Dated September 1937, this photograph shows the home of Anton Becker, one of the founders of the Ral...
Photograph of Samuel Fall of Lebanon, an inventor who around the end of the nineteenth-century tried...
This 1932 photograph depicts two men in Lansing, Michigan who work for The Olds Motor Vehicle Compan...