Scientific American Volume 59 Number 23 (December 1888) . r & Farquhar, No. 179 WashingtonStreet, Boston, Mass. __ ?»»»»? A Successral Inventor. We wish all American inventors could reap as bounti-ful a harvest of fortune as Hiram Maxim, of New York,who has received $850,000 for his last production, thequick-firing gun, in England. The first Maxim essay,the small one-barreled mitrailleur, has not been a suc-cess except in theory, the tremendous discharge of 1,000shots per minute soon being too much for any singlebore, however excellent of design or material. Maximmay be fairly accounted a pros
Scientific American Volume 59 Number 23 (December 1888) . r & Farquhar, No. 179 WashingtonStreet, Boston, Mass. __ ?»»»»? A Successral Inventor. We wish all American inventors could reap as bounti-ful a harvest of fortune as Hiram Maxim, of New York,who has received $850,000 for his last production, thequick-firing gun, in England. The first Maxim essay,the small one-barreled mitrailleur, has not been a suc-cess except in theory, the tremendous discharge of 1,000shots per minute soon being too much for any singlebore, however excellent of design or material. Maximmay be fairly accounted a prospective millionaire, hav-ing previously to his ordnance inventions received some$100,000 in the United States for his electric lightingpatents. He is still a young man, and resides at Thur-low Lodge, which he has purchased, about twenty milesfrom London. The old mansion, surrounded by veryfine grounds, is one of the historical English houses,having been the property and home of Lord Thurlow,the great English Chancellor.—Army and Navy §aJ\ KOMANO & BABTONS FLYWHEEL CLUTCH. face of the latch head, pressing the latch downwardagainst the spring into the shaft, so that the fiywheelrevolves free of the shaft. By passing the locking boltto the inner extremity of its groove, the latch in theshaft will be held in its aperture to permit the flywheelto revolve freely in either direction without operatingthe machine. AN IMFBOVED OAS gas stove which can be readily regulated to burn asmall flow as well as a large, full flow of gas is illustratedherewith, and has been patented by Mr. Clarence , of No. 198 Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn, N. cylindrical chamber, having draught openings in itslower portion, is made to fit upon the gas jet tube, andcast with this chamber, as one casting, are hollow arms,with a surrounding flange, and upright pieces rising
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