s and Maxim—perhaps he is bestknown as the inventor of an automatic systemof firearms; he sold this invention to the EnglishGovernment, after having offered it to his owncountry, and in recognition of his services wasknighted in 1901. _^ A great figure among latterday inventors andpioneers of… … BIG MEN OF THE MOVEMENT ChaLrles Stewart Rolls ChdLrles Keeney Hamilton pHARLES KEENEY HAMILTON—one of the To the memory of the Hon. C. S. Rolls belongs ^ greatest aviators in the worid—was born on manv honors. He was the first British subject to :Mav 2, 1881, in New Britain, Conn. cross the…
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