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.
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Firearm and Weapon Designers
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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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