Facts: - death date: 14 november 1916 - field: ballistics - birth date: 24 july 1856 - name: franklin weston mann - nationality: united states - death place: milford , massachusetts - birth place: norfolk , massachusetts - alma mater: cornell university boston university school of medicine Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of franklin ware mann .
franklin weston mann -lrb- 1856 -- 1916 -rrb- was an american physician and inventor remembered as author of the pioneering ballistics text entitled '' the bullet 's flight from powder to target : the internal and external ballistics of small arms ; a study of rifle shooting with the personal element excluded , disclosing the cause of the error at target '' .