[{"n": "William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/william-armstrong-1st-baron-armstrong/", "s": "English engineer and industrialist who invented modern artillery."}, {"n": "Lester P. Barlow", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/lester-p-barlow/", "s": "American inventor of early aerial bombs and Gelmite explosive."}, {"n": "Stewart Blacker", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/stewart-blacker/", "s": "British officer and inventor of the Blacker Bombard and PIAT."}, {"n": "Alan Bond (engineer)", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/alan-bond-engineer/", "s": "British engineer behind Skylon and SABRE rocket engines."}, {"n": "Wilhelm Brenneke", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/wilhelm-brenneke/", "s": "Pioneer of precision hunting cartridges and the iconic Brenneke slug."}, {"n": "John Browning", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/john-browning/", "s": "American firearm designer of lasting global influence."}, {"n": "Gerald Bull", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/gerald-bull/", "s": "Canadian engineer who designed a supergun for Iraq."}, {"n": "Giovanni Cavalli", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/giovanni-cavalli/", "s": "Italian artillerist who created the first successful rifled breech loader."}, {"n": "Cecil Vandepeer Clarke", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/cecil-vandepeer-clarke/", "s": "Engineer, inventor, and soldier who helped create the limpet mine."}, {"n": "Samuel Colt", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/samuel-colt/", "s": "American inventor who made the revolver commercially viable."}, {"n": "Henry Deringer", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/henry-deringer/", "s": "American gunsmith who invented the small handgun known as the derringer."}, {"n": "Ernest Emerson", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/ernest-emerson/", "s": "Custom knifemaker who popularized the tactical-folder and founded Emerson Knives, Inc."}, {"n": "Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/toussaint-henry-joseph-fafchamps/", "s": "Belgian captain who designed an early volley gun precursor to the mitrailleuse."}, {"n": "Richard Fiedler", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/richard-fiedler/", "s": "German inventor of the modern flamethrower."}, {"n": "Uziel Gal", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/uziel-gal/", "s": "Inventor of the Uzi submachine gun."}, {"n": "Philip Thomas Godsal", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/philip-thomas-godsal/", "s": "Welsh soldier, marksman, historian, and gun mechanism inventor."}, {"n": "Frederick Marten Hale", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/frederick-marten-hale/", "s": "British explosives engineer and grenade designer."}, {"n": "Phill Hartsfield", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/phill-hartsfield/", "s": "Southern California knifemaker who popularized the chisel ground blade."}, {"n": "Jacob and Samuel Hawken", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/jacob-and-samuel-hawken/", "s": "Gunsmiths and traders who designed the Hawken plains rifle."}, {"n": "Gordon Ingram", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/gordon-ingram/", "s": "American firearm designer who created the MAC-10 and MAC-11."}, {"n": "Millis Jefferis", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/millis-jefferis/", "s": "Engineer and founder of Churchill's secret weapons unit MD1."}, {"n": "Melvin Johnson", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/melvin-johnson/", "s": "American firearms designer and Marine Corps officer."}, {"n": "Aimo Lahti", "u": "/e/weapon-designers/aimo-lahti/", "s": "Self-taught Finnish designer of 50 weapons, including the Suomi SMG."}]