John Moses Browning designed the guns for the Mk 2 Spitfire. After 70 years of being buried in peat, they still fire flawlessly. Click on the link (after the jump) for a video of the test firing.
The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat
An excavation at the site of a 1941 Spitfire crash in a bog in the Irish Republic uncovered huge, remarkably preserved chunks of plane and six Browning machine guns. After 70 years buried in peat could they be made to fire? They certainly could, writes Dan Snow.
Below is from Wikipedia of all the firearms & cartridges that he designed.
The man was a engineering genius.
Wikipedia
Several of Browning's designs are still in production today. Some of his most notable designs include:
Firearms
- U.S. M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun
- FN Browning M1899/M1900
- Colt Model 1900
- Colt Model 1902
- Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer (.38 ACP)
- Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (.32 ACP)
- Colt Model 1905
- Remington Model 8 (1906), a long recoil semi-automatic rifle
- Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket (.25 ACP)
- Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless (.380 ACP)
- FN Model 1910
- U.S. M1911 pistol (.45 ACP)
- Colt Woodsman pistol
- Winchester Model 1885 falling-block single shot rifle
- Winchester Model 1886 lever-action repeating rifle
- Winchester Model 1887 lever-action repeating shotgun
- Winchester Model 1890 slide-action repeating rifle (.22)
- Winchester Model 1892 lever-action repeating rifle
- Winchester Model 1894 lever-action repeating rifle
- Winchester Model 1895 lever-action repeating rifle
- Winchester Model 1897 pump-action repeating shotgun
- Browning Auto-5 long recoil semi-automatic shotgun
- U.S. M1917 water-cooled machine gun
- U.S. M1919 air-cooled machine gun
- U.S. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)
- U.S. M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun of 1921 (the famed "Ma-Deuce" weapon)
- Remington Model 8 semi-auto rifle
- Remington Model 24 semi-auto rifle (.22) Also produced by Browning Firearms (as the SA-22) and several others
- Browning Hi-Power (Grand Puissance or GP), the standard sidearm of many military and police forces
- The Browning Superposed over/under shotgun was designed by John Browning in 1922 and entered production in 1931
- Ithaca Model 37 pump-action repeating shotgun
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