Recent posts about Houston, Mississippi on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Houston is mentioned 267 times on our forum: Latest news from Houston, MS collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: American (13.1%), English (9.6%), Irish (2.9%), African (1.4%), Scotch-Irish (1.2%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 7.59 square miles.
Resomation was invented by  biochemist Sandy Sullivan, who is assisting Anderson-McQueen in the start up. Sullivan's Resomation, Ltd. has been developing the system since 2007, and it is distributed by Matthews Cremation of Orlando.
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.