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In response, Winchester shifted reliance away from John Browning designs when it adopted a shotgun design of Thomas Crossley Johnson for the new Winchester Model 1911 SL, (Johnson had to work around Browning's patents of what became the Auto-5 [citation needed]) and the new Model 1912 pump shotgun, which was based in small part upon design ...
It reopened in May of 1948 at its current location in Building 60. The museum was renamed the John M. Browning Memorial Museum on November 4, 1959, in “recognition of Mr. Browning’s contributions to ordnance technology and the armed forces.” During this time, the museum became known for its arms collection, a diverse collection of foreign ...
Browning's earliest 1895 pistol prototype. John Browning started his work on semi-automatic pistols in 1894, when he mostly finalized the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. [2] He initially tried to use the same gas action with a swinging piston, with a prototype ready to be shown to Colt in July 1895, [3] and applied for a patent [4] in ...
SIG Sauer system. The SIG Sauer system is a type of action found in self-loading handguns. It is a refinement of designs based on the work of both John M. Browning and Charles Petter which began with the Colt Model 1900, progressed to the French Model 1935A, and later the SIG P210 handgun.
Colt and Browning responded to these criticisms with the introduction of the Colt Model 1905 pistol chambered in a new .452 in cartridge Browning designed—the .45 ACP. [1] European militaries generally opted for lighter calibers, with the exception of the British (a policy that may have reflected their extensive experience in colonial warfare).
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Patent Office Head [1] Began service: Ended service: Commissioners for the Promotion of Useful Arts or Patent Board [2] Edmund Randolph Henry Knox Thomas Jefferson: 1790: 1793 Secretary of State [3] [2] Edmund Randolph: 1794: 1795 Timothy Pickering: 1795: May 12, 1800 John Marshall: May 13, 1800: March 4, 1801 James Madison: March 5, 1801: 1802 ...
US Army 2nd Lt. Valmore A. Browning test firing a Browning machine gun. This gun was used in the Argonne Sector. In 1900, John Moses Browning filed a patent for a recoil-powered automatic gun. [3] Browning did not work on the gun again until 1910, when he built a water-cooled prototype of the 1900 design. [4]