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This Week 165 Years Ago...
Smitty500mag
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John Moses Browning was born on January 21, 1855. The father of modern firearms. "Amazingly, since Browning’s death in 1926, there have been no further fundamental changes in the modern firearm industry."
To bad he wasn't born a little later in the century when more modern tooling and machinery was available or at least electric lights. Edison didn't get a patient for the modern light bulb until November 1879. By that time Browning already had his first gun patient when he was 24 years old. The man was a genius. Working by gas light or candle light at night he came up with designs that were far ahead of their time. It would be hard to imagine what he might have come up with if he had a team of scientist and engineers working for him like Edison did.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gun-designer-john-browning-is-born
Below is just a partial list of his designs.
To bad he wasn't born a little later in the century when more modern tooling and machinery was available or at least electric lights. Edison didn't get a patient for the modern light bulb until November 1879. By that time Browning already had his first gun patient when he was 24 years old. The man was a genius. Working by gas light or candle light at night he came up with designs that were far ahead of their time. It would be hard to imagine what he might have come up with if he had a team of scientist and engineers working for him like Edison did.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gun-designer-john-browning-is-born
Below is just a partial list of his designs.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Browning_(inventor)
I visited the recreation of his gun shop in Nauvoo Illinois at the Mormon settlement, unfortunately haven't visited JMB's firearm museum in Ogden, yet.
Mule
Dont forget the 1885, 1892 and 1895
Winchesters.
Not to mention the Superposed. His final project........