Fire-safe hotels and motels in Swedesboro, New Jersey: 1  Holiday Inn Select Bridgeport, 1 Pureland Dr I-295 Exit 10, Swedesboro, NJ 08085, Phone: (856) 467-3322, Fax: (856) 467-3031.
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.
A SCR-300 walkie talkie. The first radio receiver/transmitter to be widely nicknamed Walkie-Talkie was the backpacked Motorola SCR-300, created by an engineering team in 1940 at the Galvin Manufacturing Company (fore-runner of Motorola).