Science: Death of Maxim

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Hudson Maxim, 74, inventor of deadly explosives. It came slowly, quietly—preceded by 24 hours' coma. It found him at his home at Maxim Park, Lake Hopatcong, N. J. It had tried unsuccessfully, many times before, to find him in his laboratory. Although several of his assistants had been blown to bits, he emerged from all his dangerous experiments with only his left hand missing.

He knew so much about high explosives that he was often playful...