John Browning

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Firearms designer of the United States (1855-1926)

United States ScientistsLived 1855 to 1926 · aged 71

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John Moses Browning was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world.

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Browning Brothers gun shop, Ogden, Utah Territory, 1882. From left to right: Thomas Samuel Browning, George Emmett Browning, John Moses Browning, Matthew Sandefur Browning, Jonathan Edmund Browning, and Frank Rushton

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Browning seated with a M1907 machine gun

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2007National Inventors Hall of Fame

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FatherJonathan Browning

ChildVal A. Browning

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Stanley Miller56.8

Edward Emerson Barnard56.7

Henrietta Swan Leavitt56.8

Lynn Conway56.7

Jack Szostak56.9

J. Allen Hynek56.7

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John Moses Browning was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. He made his first firearm at age 13 in his father's gun shop and was awarded the first of his 128 firearm patents on October 7, 1879, at the age of 24. He is regarded as one of the most successful firearms designers of the 19th and 20th centuries and a pioneer of modern repeating, semi-automatic, and automatic firearms.

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United States