Inventors and engineers who designed firearms, machine guns and rifles and the manufacturing methods behind them. A person belongs here when the cited article credits the person with a gun or rifle design. It excludes engineers whose weapons work was only incidental to engine or vehicle design, who sit in the engine and vehicle group. The group is one of the groupings of engineers under this engineering field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field.
All Firearm and Weapon Designers
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Orbán (ironmaster) (source article)
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Orbán (died 1453), also known as Urban, was an iron founder and engineer from Brassó, Transylvania, in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Brașov, Romania), who cast large-calibre artillery, Basilic, for the siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453.
Václav Holek (Wikipedia)
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Václav Holek (24 September 1886-13 December 1954) was a Czech firearm engineer who applied for over 75 patents.
Hiram Stevens Maxim (Wikipedia)
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Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840-24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun.
Joseph Whitworth (Wikipedia)
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Whitworth also created the Whitworth rifle, often called the "sharpshooter" because of its accuracy, which is considered one of the earliest examples of a sniper rifle, used by some Confederate forces during the American Civil war.
Simeon North (Wikipedia)
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was an American gun manufacturer
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