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A third shot took out the insurgents' machine gun. The rifle used was made by Accuracy International. [21] In June 2017, an unnamed sniper from Canada's Tier 1 special forces unit, Joint Task Force 2, surpassed the 2009 record by over 1,000 m (1,100 yd), with a 3,540 m (3,871 yd) shot in the Iraqi Civil War.
On May 21, 1811, Hall patented a single shot, breech-loading rifle in collusion with Washington, D.C. architect Dr. William Thornton. [2] He began manufacturing his new rifles at the rate of 50 per year until the United States Army Ordnance Corps ordered 200 rifles in December 1814. He regretfully turned down the contract because he was unable ...
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
The world-record comes just a year after Ukraine almost broke the record when one of its snipers shot a Russian soldier from 1.7miles away, thought the be the world’s second-longest combat kill.
The revolutionary design inspired the popular phrase of the time, "God created men, Col. Colt made them equal". [1] Initially this 5 shot revolver was produced in .28 caliber, with a .36 caliber model following a year later. As originally designed and produced, no loading lever was included with the revolver; a user had to partially disassemble ...
Jerome "Jerry" Hal Lemelson (July 18, 1923 – October 1, 1997) was an American engineer, inventor, and patent holder. Several of his inventions relate to warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive. [1]
Bowyery, world record for longest shot with a longbow Harry Eugene Drake (born in Kansas on May 7, 1915 – July 28, 1997 died in Nevada [ 1 ] ) was an archer and bowyer . Drake was an early pioneer in work on modern implementations of the composite bow design.
Gaston Glock (German: [ˈɡastɔn ˈɡlɔk]; 19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman.He founded the company Glock.When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models.