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  2. Obed Hussey - Wikipedia

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    Obed Hussey circa 1850 Poster for Hussey's Reaping Machine. Obed Hussey (1792–1860) was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick.

  3. Carbine Williams - Wikipedia

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    The film follows the life of David Marshall Williams, who was a member of the Winchester team that invented the semi-automatic M1 Carbine used in World War II. Williams was found distilling illegal moonshine, and was held responsible for the death of a sheriff's deputy during a raid on his still. He was sentenced to thirty years' hard labor.

  4. David Marshall Williams - Wikipedia

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    David Marshall Williams (November 13, 1900 – January 8, 1975) was an American firearms designer and convicted murderer who invented the floating chamber and the short-stroke gas piston. Both designs used the high-pressure gas generated in or near the breech of the firearm to operate the action of semi-automatic firearms like the M1 Carbine.

  5. Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hall McCormick (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper which his eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented in 1834 and became the foundation of the International Harvester Company.

  6. Blackie Collins - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1960s-early 1970's he also made knives under the name of Blackie Sewell and had a shop in the original Underground Atlanta. In 1981, Collins' designed a knife for Gerber Legendary Blades named the LST (light, strong, tough). The LST was the first knife to feature injection molded Zytel handles and featured a total of six parts. His ...

  7. Nicholas Irving - Wikipedia

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    Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper (2016, with Gary Brozek) [17] ISBN 9781250088352; Never Fear Anything: My Untold Story As A Sniper In Our Nations Longest War (2018, with Robert Terkla) [18] ISBN 9780999769706; Fiction. Reaper: Ghost Target (2018, with A.J. Tata) [19] ISBN 9781250127341

  8. Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia

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    He finally sold seven reapers in 1842, 29 in 1843, and 50 in 1844. They were all built manually in the family farm shop. He received a second patent for reaper improvements on January 31, 1845. [6] As word spread about the reaper, McCormick noticed orders arriving from farther west, where farms tended to be larger and the land flatter.

  9. Switchblade - Wikipedia

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    A folding switchblade. A switchblade (also known as switch knife, automatic knife, pushbutton knife, ejector knife, flick knife, gravity knife, flick blade, or spring knife) is a pocketknife with a sliding or pivoting blade contained in the handle which is extended automatically by a spring when a button, lever, or switch on the handle or bolster is activated.