Evening star., 1926-11-26
JNO. N. BROWNING,
INVENTOR, DIES
Famed Firearms Expert Ex-
pires in Belgium While
Perfecting New Idea.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
OGDEN. Utah, November 26.-John
NJ. Browning, world famous inventor
OF firearms, is dead in Belgium, a
cablegram to relatives in ogden an
nounced.
Browning went to Liege, Belgium.
few weeks ago to perfect his latest in
venIion, an "over-and under" double
balTeled shotgun. and the message
telling of his death came from Liege.
The gun had one barrel above the
other. instead of two horizontal bar
re,S. 1t was to be manufactured IN
the Liege plant. 1t was this plant
which in 1913 manufactured the mil
llonth Browning automatic pistol. In
honor of this achievement, King AL
bert conferred upon Browning the title
of Chevalier Of the Order of Leopold.
Unlike many great inventors VINO
were deprived of the fruits of their
creations, Mr.. Browning, originator
of the famous machine gun which
bears his name, has been described
as a Success from the start"
The Browning water-cooled ma
chine gun, the As caliber automatic
pistol adopted by the United States
Army and the machine gun rifle,
all Browning inventions, were sup
piled to the American and allied
armies by the million, and played
tremendous part in winning the
war from Germany.
Browning inventions never lacked
a market. From the time he manu-
featured his first gun at the age Oh
13 until the World War made nm
more widely known. Browning re-
ceved flattering offers for his IDEAS
tand inventions almost as soon as
they had taken definite shape on the
work bench.
Rifle Makers Son.
The son of a rifle manufactured
Browning devoted much of his tlme
as a child fashioning simple toys
from scraps of metal picked up
around his fathers shop in Ogoeh,
Utah. 1t was from such scraps tilat
he made his first gun-a single siio|
weapon that proved effective IN
sbooting rabbits. Ten years later ne
| had invented and manufactured ooV
ri'es which later became known as
the Winchester single-shot modei'
From then on the Winchester COM
many bought every model young
browning was willing to sell.
Turning his attention to automatlc
pistols. he produced IN 1857 ne
model used by the Unlted o.ates
Arn,v in both the Spanish American
and European wars. Inc nidilu.a. enn
turing rights for this weapon were
secured by the Coie AAiiA9
featuring Co. ,aforo
u
proyypine's time inventors had been
experimenting with rapld-nre repeat'
,no guns. The most notable survivor
when Browning turned his attehtloli
to such a rifle in the early nlnetles'
was the Gatling gun, produced oy
Richard Jordan Gatling before the
American Civil War. and used even
as late as the Spanish American !" ar
The first machine gun turned ou'
bv Browning was made famous our
ing the Spanish-American CONNECT
and through it's effective work IN ootn
land and naval battles around Sanu-
900 hecame known as "the peace
maker"
Perfects Machine Gun.
After the Spanish American War
browning devoted his time TO improve
ments in pistols, rifles and shotguns.
When the European war peedh he
again turned his attention to machine
guns, realizing that such weapons
would become Of first Importance in
the conflict. The Browning water
cooled, rapid-fre gun, capable of firing
600 shots a minute, was the result OF
his experimentation Then followed
the machine-gun rifle and still later
the airplane arrangement, by which
three guns controlled by one trigger,
can discharge $500 bullets minute.
These devices were used by the
armies of the United States, England,
France. Belgium, Italy and Russia.
In the United States Mr.. Browning
was honored with the John Scott
legacy, awarded by the Franklin In
stitute Of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Browning was born in Ogden,
Utah, in 1854. While regarding
ogden as his home, he spent a great
er part Of his time during and after
the war in Hartford, Conn. headquar-
ters of the big plants which manu-
facture many of his inventions.
Early in life he married Rachael
Child. They had seven children, John
Browning, Mrs. Il. l.. Ford, Mrs e.
f. Ballantyne, Mrs. Joseph Olson and
Val. Kenneth and Elizabeth Browning.
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