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Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927

LC control no.n 84805617
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3525.A9415
Personal name headingMaxim, Hudson, 1853-1927
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Associated countryU.S.
LocatedHopatcong, Lake, N.J. : Lake
Birth date1853-02-03
Death date1927-05-06
Place of birthOrneville, Me.
Place of deathLanding, N.J.
Field of activityChemistry
Explosives industry
Profession or occupationChemists
Inventors
Authors
Found inLCCN 27-24154: His The rise of an American inventor, 1927 (hdg.: Maxim, Hudson, 1853- ; usage: Hudson Maxim)
Blood brothers, 1999: p. 217 (died 1927)
Hudson Maxim papers, 1851-1925: processing notes and finding aid (Hudson Maxim; b. Feb. 3, 1853 at Orneville, Maine; d. May 6, 1927 at Landing, N.J., on Lake Hopatcong; inventor; produced first smokeless powder in U.S.; sold his major patents to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in 1897 and became a freelance inventor and writer on various public issues; in later life devoted himself to the development of Lake Hopatcong, N.J., where he had a home and laboratory)
Associated languageeng