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Hiram Percy Maxim Inventor and Fan
First of a Series of Portraits of Leaders of the Amateur Cinema League
THE latest edition of "Who's Who in America" records Hiram Percy Maxim as a mechanical engineer and inventor, President of the Maxim Silencer Company, President of the American Radio Relay League, President of the International Amateur Radio Union, member of the Hartford Municipal Aviation Commission and Lieutenant Commander of the United States Naval Reserve. It was published too soon to record him in the role best known to the movie-makers — President of the Amateur Cinema League — but next year's edition will undoubtedly rectify that. Mr. Maxim is the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim rapid-fire gun, and a nephew of Hudson Maxim, inventor of Maximite. Mr. Maxim invented the Maxim Gun Silencer; also, with the aid of his son, Hiram Hamilton Maxim, the Maxim Industrial Silencer, which is one of the greatest boons to health and serene nerves that has ever been produced. This industrial silencer has
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been developed until in 1926 there were eleven models and fifty sizes, so that machines as small as 10 c.f.m. and engines up to 4,000 horsepower can be effectively quieted.
The above-mentioned are the outstanding inventions of these men; they are but a few in a long list each has to his credit.
Mr. Maxim now lives in Hartford, Conn., where the Maxim Silencer Company is located. In his spare time he turns his creative genius to the development of amateur movies and amateur radio, and to the banding together of people interested in these hobbies. Regarding this banding together of interested amateurs he says:
"My idea in pushing these enterprises was to bring together all those interested in these amateur hobbies, so that by orderly, organized effort
the most good might be got out of them. Nothing can be done by playing lone hands. Anything can be done by systematically organized effort."
The term inventor frequently brings to mind the adjectives absentminded and eccentric. Neither of these can be applied to the President of the Amateur Cinema League. His mind is very keen and continually on the alert; he is filled with boundless enthusiasm for his many hobbies, which include, besides movies and radio, cruising and fishing and exploring in the wilds. Hudson Maxim, in his book "The Rise of an American Inventor," says of his nephew: "Hiram Percy Maxim inherited much of his father's inventive genius and fine qualities. Percy and I always have been fast friends and I have been strongly attracted by his work and personality. He has won wide fame from his radio work and has rendered great service to the public in extending the range of the amateur radio operator. The versatility of his genius is re