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2 days ago · Developed by John Browning, the Colt 1911 and the .45 ACP cartridge developed to go with it were the result of the US Army needing a more powerful sidearm. The M1892 Colt Revolver chambered in .38 Long Colt in use at the turn of the 20th Century was not powerful enough to stop a determined opponent.
2 days ago · This weeks #bookoftheweek is The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein. The...
1 day ago · The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known.
2 days ago · List of aviation pioneers. Aviation pioneers are people directly and indirectly responsible for the advancement of flight, including people who worked to achieve manned flight before the invention of aircraft, as well as others who achieved significant "firsts" in aviation after heavier-than-air flight became routine.
3 days ago · In August of 1894, when Winchester’s hot offerings were the powerful-but-burly 1886 and the graceful-but-underpowered 1892, John Browning showed the company his patent for something in...
5 days ago · The inventors who labored to bring the computer into the world had to learn that the thing they were inventing was not just a number cruncher, not merely a calculator.
5 days ago · However, many ancient technology mysteries were forgotten, lost to the pages of history, only to be re-invented millennia later. Here we feature ancient technology history and dozens of amazing artifacts that reflect the brilliance of ancient minds. 2 July, 2024 - 14:58 Gary Manners.
