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He began producing firearms independently by 1831 and shortly thereafter invented a "sliding breech" repeating rifle, also called a Harmonica gun, between 1834 and 1842 while living in Quincy, Illinois. Each Harmonica gun took two weeks to manufacture by hand and were available to purchase for $24.00.
In 1814 a flintlock harmonica gun was patented by James Thomson. [6]According to Clive Scott Chisholm in Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream and Louis A Garavaglia & Charles G. Worman in Firearms of the American West: 1803-1865 the slide gun was independently invented by a Mormon gunsmith called Nicanor Kendall in 1838 and it was from this gunsmith that Browning got ...
Browning's father Jonathan—who was among the thousands of pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who made an exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Utah—established a gunsmith shop in Ogden in 1852. As was common in the Latter-day Saint community at the time, Jonathan Browning was a polygamist, having taken three wives. He ...
Browning Brothers gun shop, Ogden, Utah Territory, 1882. From left to right: Thomas Samuel Browning, George Emmett Browning, John Moses Browning, Matthew Sandefur Browning, Jonathan Edmund Browning, and Frank Rushton. Browning Arms Company (originally John Moses and Matthew Sandefur Browning Company) is an American marketer of firearms and ...
Built by Nauvoo gunsmith Jonathan Browning between 1842–1846. Nauvoo was home to a gunsmith shop run by inventor Jonathan Browning, who repaired and built guns for citizens of Nauvoo and surrounding region. [39] [38] Browning invented a harmonica rifle around 1844, that became a sought after model by local Latter Day Saints. [40]
Written by former Philadelphia Inquirer author Nathan Gorenstein, The Guns of John Moses Browning details the events of John Browning's life, his inventions, and their historical impact. [1] The book provides information on Browning's designs, as well as relevant aspects of his biography that impacted their creation. [2]
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Browning family Jonathan Browning (October 22, 1805 – June 21, 1879), American pioneer and firearms inventor. Was a notable producer of harmonica guns, an early type of repeating rifle. John M. Browning (January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), firearms inventor and designer.