Maxim's Flying Machine

thing and aeroplane

Aged unknown

Commemorated on 2 plaques

Sir Hiram Maxim 1840-1916 Across this site ran the track from which in 1894 this prolific inventor flew his aeroplane, the largest aircraft to lift itself off the ground in the nineteenth century. He lived in nearby Baldwyns Mansion.

Maypole Primary School, Franklin Road, Dartford, United Kingdom where it sited

Sir Hiram Maxim 1840-1916 Prolific inventor, lived here 1889-1904. In a hangar to the south-west of the house he built a steam-powered flying machine which briefly lifted itself off the ground in 1894

Off Sandringham Drive, Dartford, United Kingdom where it sited