Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — A Successful Inventor. [ARTICLE]

A Successful Inventor.

Hiram Maxim, of New York, has received $850,000 for his last production, the quick-firing gun, in England. The first Maxim essay, the small one-barreled mitrailleur, has not been a success except in the theory, the tremendous discharge of 1,000 shots per minute soon being too much -for any single bore, however excellent of design or material. Maxim may be fairly accounted a prospective millionaire, having previously to his ordnance inventions received some SIOO,OOO in the United States for his electric lighting patents. He is still a young man,and resides at Thurlow Lodge, which he has purchased, about twenty miles from London. The old mansion, surrounded by very fine grounds, is one of tho historical English houses, having been the property and home of lord Thurlow, the . great English Chancellor.