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Quick Answer. The first working gun silencer was developed by Hiram P. Maxim in 1908, who started selling the first units when the invention was patented, in 1909. Hiram P. Maxim is the son of U.S. born inventor Hiram Smith Maxim who invented the first portable machine gun. Continue Reading.
The first piano made in America was by John Behrent of Philadelphia in 1775. The period of greatest development in piano construction lay between the years of 1775 and 1830 and then between 1835 and 1880. 1796. Jonas Chickering was born at Mason Village, New Hampshire, in April, 1796, where, after a sound schooling, he thoroughly learned the business of cabinet-making.