Browning, Jonathan
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| born on | 22 October 1805 | ||||
| Place | Gallatin, Tennessee, 36n23, 86w27 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m86w27 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   28°54'   or
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Biography
American inventor and gunmaker. he started earning a living as a blacksmith and later switched to become a lock and gunsmith. He invented a 'sliding breech' repeating rifle also called a Harmonica gun between 1834 and 1842 while living in Quincy, Illinois. He achieved success with the Harmonica gun and he received many orders. It is estimated that each Harmonica gun took 2 weeks to make, and Browning sold the guns for twenty-four dollars.
Jonathan Browning was a polygamist, having taken three wives. He fathered 19 children; prominent among them was the gun designer, John Moses Browning, one of the most important figures in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms.
He died 21 June 1879.
Relationships
- child->parent relationship with Browning, John Moses (born 23 January 1855)
Source Notes
Bueth time unknown. Starkman rectified to 18.15.57 LMT Asc 21Tau19'
Categories
- Vocation : Engineer : Mechanical
- Notable : Famous : First in Field
