Weapon designers
23 entries in the Weapon Designers compendium.
William Armstrong, 1st Baron ArmstrongEnglish engineer and industrialist who invented modern artillery.Lester P. BarlowAmerican inventor of early aerial bombs and Gelmite explosive.Stewart BlackerBritish officer and inventor of the Blacker Bombard and PIAT.Alan Bond (engineer)British engineer behind Skylon and SABRE rocket engines.Wilhelm BrennekeGerman ammunition designer who invented the modern shotgun slug.John BrowningAmerican firearm designer of lasting global influence.Gerald BullCanadian engineer who designed a supergun for Iraq.Giovanni CavalliItalian artillerist who created the first successful rifled breech loader.Cecil Vandepeer ClarkeEngineer, inventor, and soldier who helped create the limpet mine.Samuel ColtAmerican inventor who made the revolver commercially viable.Henry DeringerAmerican gunsmith who invented the small handgun known as the derringer.Ernest EmersonCustom knifemaker who popularized the tactical-folder and founded Emerson Knives, Inc.Toussaint-Henry-Joseph FafchampsBelgian captain who designed an early volley gun precursor to the mitrailleuse.Richard FiedlerGerman inventor of the modern flamethrower.Uziel GalInventor of the Uzi submachine gun.Philip Thomas GodsalWelsh soldier, marksman, historian, and gun mechanism inventor.Frederick Marten HaleBritish explosives engineer and grenade designer.Phill HartsfieldSouthern California knifemaker who popularized the chisel ground blade.Jacob and Samuel HawkenGunsmiths and traders who designed the Hawken plains rifle.Gordon IngramAmerican firearm designer who created the MAC-10 and MAC-11.Millis JefferisEngineer and founder of Churchill's secret weapons unit MD1.Melvin JohnsonAmerican firearms designer and Marine Corps officer.Aimo LahtiSelf-taught Finnish designer of 50 weapons, including the Suomi SMG.
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