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Moses Wainer Dykaar, Hudson Maxim, 1921, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1922.3.1
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Hudson Maxim invented many weapons that influenced modern warfare, including the first smokeless powder made in America and "maximite," the first high explosive able to pierce armor. As a child, he received little schooling and once worked for seventy-five cents to buy his first atlas so that he could "see where Napoleon lived." In 1888 he began experimenting with explosives and a year later built a dynamite factory and smokeless-powder mill in Maxim, New Jersey, a town named for him. Although he developed many forms of "concentrated destruction," Maxim was a firm believer in peaceful arbitration and wrote many books and lectures on the subject.
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Hudson Maxim
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- 1921
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22 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (57.1 x 52.0 x 31.8 cm)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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- bronze
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- Portrait male – Maxim, Hudson – bust
- Occupation – science – inventor
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1922.3.1
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