![]() Who made the mousetrap? Who? Who? Hiram Maxim made the mousetrap. That’s who. Hiram had a great creative mind. In 1881 Hiram visited the Paris Electrical Exhibition. Hiram did. He invented the world’s first automatic portable machine-gun.
It could fire 500 rounds a minute, as much as 100 rifles. Hiram’s invention was soon used in Africa with marvelous results. A small group of brave English soldiers could employ
Thousands could be slaughtered in an astonishingly Hurrah! Queen Victoria was much impressed with this American inventor She made him a knight. Hiram kept improving his invention. It was a complicated business. But Hiram was quite ingenious. When they were ready for their Great War, It made a brilliant addition to a pointless conflict
Hiram also invented a light bulb, a flying machine But his most famous invention would be his apparatus Even the mousetrap, while quite wonderful, could not compete.
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