Full list of John Moses Brownings designs?

1) Colt M1911 auto
2) BAR
3) Colt 1895 Peacemaker
4) Browning P35 9MM
5) FN .32 Cal Model 1900
6) Remington Model 11
7) Winchester Model 1886 Lever Action
8) Model 1887 Lever Action Auto shot gun
9) Model 1897 Pump Action Shotgun
10) Model 1894 Lever Action Repeating Rifle
11) Model 1895 LARR
12) Browning Baby .25

Can't think of any other besides many other machine gun and shot gun designs.

Also the ithaca 37 i believe.

Wasn't the M60 also his?

Ok, I looked in a book I have about John Moses Browning. He had 81 guns he produced, and the P35 is not one of them. He also had several patents to designs of firearms that he never produced, but sold the design rights to gun manufactures that just put them away to never be produced.

Well in all fairness, wasn't the p35 his design but not produced or compleated until after his death?

What about the m2 machine gun and the water cooled predosesor

a few more additions

Colt 1900
Colt 1902 Sporting
Colt 1902 Military
Colt 1903 Pocket
Colt 1905 45
Colt 1908 Hammerless Pocket
Colt 1908 .25 Pocket
Colt .22 auto (commonly called the Pre-Woodsman)
FN 1903
FN 1906
FN 1910
FN 1922

Remington Model 10 pump shotgun
The Ithaca 37 was originally produced by Remington as their Model 17

Winchester 1885 Single Shot
Winchester 1892 Lever Action
Winchester 1890 Slide Action 22
Winchester 1906 Slide Action 22
Winchester 1893 Slide Action Shotgun

Colt-Browning 1895 Machine gun
Colt-Browning 1904 Machine gun
1917A1 Machine Gun
1919A4 Machine Gun


¿What exactly is a Colt 1895 Peacemaker?



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I'm surprised no one mentioned the Browning A-1 shotgun.

I believe all of Brownings shotgun designs were sold to and originally produced by Winchester & Remington in the US and FN for the rest of the world.
Browning originally offered the rights to his gas operated semi auto shotgun to Winchester, but they refused to agree to royalty paymants. Browning then severed his ties with Winchester and sold the rights to Remington who produced it as their Model 11.


Also wasn't the Remington Model 8 a Browning design? Or am I just confused by the hump-back receiver?

I have a book on the life of JMB, and it has in index that lists everything he patented. As soon as I can dig it up, I'll post it here. IIRC, it's about 116 or so designs (including his loading device for his MG belts.)

Browning originally offered the rights to his gas operated semi auto shotgun to Winchester

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Bluesbear: The A5/M11 autoloading shotgun was Long Recoil operated.

Nobody mentioned the "ole cornshucker" the Model 1897 or its daddy the Model 1893.

Did anybody mention the "Superposed?" I seem to remember reading JMB thought that was the jewel in the crown of his inventions.

Bluesbear: The A5/M11 autoloading shotgun was Long Recoil operated.

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Duh I knew that. :banghead: Just like the Savage 520 series.

Nobody mentioned the "ole cornshucker" the Model 1897 or its daddy the Model 1893.

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Yes we did.

Every time I find a new rifle or pistol to get excited about it seems to have JMB's fingerprints all over it.

My latest is the single shot falling blocks. Lo and behold! JMB sold the design to Winchester and Browning and later Ruger brought out very slightly improved versions.

The man was simply a genious. I occasionally wonder what the state of the fire arms industry would be like if JMB had never existed.

I occasionally wonder what the state of the fire arms industry would be like if JMB had never existed.

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We'd all be shooting Lugers, M1 Garands and double barreled shotguns.

Coltdriver,

I believe that Browning merely improved the falling block; witness the Sharps Model 1863 & 1874 falling blocks.

We'd all be shooting Lugers, M1 Garands and double barreled shotguns


Add a lot of revolvers, too....no 1911's, no P35's

Add a lot of revolvers, too....

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You say that like it's a bad thing. I really like that idea.

Ok, I looked in a book I have about John Moses Browning. He had 81 guns he produced, and the P35 is not one of them. He also had several patents to designs of firearms that he never produced, but sold the design rights to gun manufactures that just put them away to never be produced.

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You better get a better book.

¿What exactly is a Colt 1895 Peacemaker?

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The 1895 Machine gun was also know as the "peacemaker".

To be honest John Browning co-designed the P-35/High Power. He started it but it was finalized after his death.

Of course there are some that worship him to the extent that they believe he finished the desigh from the grave.

A LOOOONG post!

From the book John M. Browning American Gunmaker by John Browning and Curt Gentry, 1964, Doubleday & Co, Garden City, NY

Guns of Johathan Browning (1805-79)

1. Slide repeating rifle, approx. caliber .45; never patented; total number manufactured not known; mfg dates: 1842-6 In Quincy and Nauvoo, Illinois, and 1846-52 in Kanesville, Iowa

2. Clyinder repeating rifle, approx. caliber .45; never patented, total number produced not known; mfg. sometime between 1834 and 1842

Guns of John M. Browning (1855-1926)

1. Single shot rifle (Browning Bros. & Winchester)
calibers from .22 Short to .50/90 Sharps; patent granted October 7, 1879

2. Tubular Magazine repeating rifle
patent granted July 25, 1882; never manufactured, no known models survive

3. Lever action repeating rifle
caliber .45; patent granted August 7, 1883; never manufactured

4. Model 1886 lever action repeating rifle
calibers .45/70, .40/82WCF, .45/90WCF, .40/65WCF, .38/56WCF, .50/110 Express, .40/70WCF, .38/70WCF, 50/100/450, .33WCF; patent 306,577 granted October 14, 1884, and purchased by Winchester same month

5. Model 1890 .22 caliber pump action repeating rifle (Winchester)
patent granted June 26, 1888

6. Model 1892 Lever action repeating rifle (Winchester)
covered under patent nos. 306,577; 465,399 (10/15/1892) & 499,005 (6/6/1893)

7. Model 1894 lever action repeating rifle (Winchester)
patent 524,702 granted August 21, 1894; calibers .32/40, .38/55; in 1895 .25/35 & .30/30 added; .32 Special added in 1902

8. Model 1895 lever action repeating rifle (Winchester)
patent 549,345 granted November 5, 1895; calibers .30 Krag, .38/72, .40/72 Win., .303 British, .35 Win., .405 Win., .30 Gov’t 1903, .30 Gov’t 1906, 7.62mm Russian

9. Model 1900 bolt action single shot .22 caliber rifle (Winchester)
patent granted August 29, 1899

10. Semi-automatic high power rifle (Remington and FN)
patent 659,786 granted October 16, 1900; produced as Remington model 8 in calibers .25, .30, .32, & .35 Remington (only 4,913 units manufactured by FN in .35 Rem. as the F.N. Caliber .35 Automatic Rifle)

11. Semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle (FN, Remington, & Browning)
patents 1,065,341-2 and 1,083,384 granted June 24 1913 & January 6, 1914

12. Pump action .22 caliber repeating rifle (FN)
patent 1,424,553 granted August 1, 1922; one of the few Browning guns never manufactured or sold in the U.S.; still in production by FN as of 1964

13. Browning Automatic Rifle (Colt, Winchester, Marlin-Rockwell, FN, & others)
patent 1,293,022 granted February 4, 1919; caliber .30-06

14. .38 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 312,183 granted February 10, 1885; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

15. .30 caliber Government lever action repeating rifle
patent 324,296 granted August 11, 1885; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

16. .45 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 324,297 granted August 11, 1885; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

17. .44 caliber pump action repeating rifle
patent 367,336 granted July 26, 1887; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

18. .45 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 376,576 granted January 17, 1888; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

19. .45/70 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 428,887 granted May 27, 1890; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

20. .44 caliber lever action repeating rifle
covered by same patent as #19; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

21. .22 caliber pull-apart repeating rifle
patent 465,340 granted December 15, 1891; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

22. .45 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 465,339 granted December 15, 1891; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; detachable box magazine

23. .30 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 492,459 granted February 28, 1893; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

24. .30 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 486,272 granted November 15, 1892; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

25. .30 caliber pull-apart repeating rifle
patent 486,273 granted Novemember 15, 1892; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

26. .30 caliber pull-apart repeating rifle
covered under same patent as #25; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; differed from #25 in that it incorporated a safety lock which locked the sear with the hammer cocked and also locked the gun against accidental pull-apart

27. .44 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 499,005 granted June 6, 1893; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

28 .30 caliber swing guard repeating rifle
patent 499,007 granted June 6, 1893; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; works like a lever action with the lever mounted backward

29. .22 caliber rim fire single shot rifle
patent 511,677 granted December 26, 1893; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

30. .22 caliber rim fire single shot rifle
covered same as #29; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; differs with a simple push-rod extractor and different spring arrangement on the breechblock

31. .22 caliber rim fire single shot rifle
covered same as #29; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; differs only in minor details

32. .22 caliber rim fire single shot rifle
same as #29; replaceable firing pin screwed into back of breechblock

33. .30 caliber pump action repeating rifle
patent 545,672 granted September 3, 1895; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

34. .40 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 545,671 granted September 3, 1895; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

35. .236 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 599,595 granted February 22, 1898; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

36. .30 caliber lever action repeating rifle
patent 619,132 granted February 7, 1899; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

37. .30 caliber lever action repeating rifle
covered same as #36; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; two-piece stock and double- row staggered magazine inside receiver;

38. Model 1887 lever action repeating shotgun (Winchester)
patent 336,287 granted February 16, 1886; 10 and 12 ga.

39. Model 1893 pump action repeating shotgun (Winchester)
patent 441,390 granted November 25, 1890; 12 ga., 2 5/8†shell

40. Model 1897 pump action repeating shotgun (Winchester)
Modified takedown version of the 1893; 12 & 16 ga.

41. Model 520 pump action shotgun (Stevens)
patent 781,765 granted February 7, 1905; 12 ga.

42. Model 17 pump action shotgun (Remington)
patent 1,143,170 granted June 15, 1915; 20 ga.; this was JMB’s last repeater-type shotgun design

43, 44, 45. automatic shotguns (FN, Browning, Remington, & others)
patent 659,507 granted October 9, 1900; patent 689,283 granted December 17, 1901; patent 710,094 granted September 20, 1902; patent 812, 326 granted February 13, 1906; 12, 16, 20 & 3†Mag. 12 ga.

46. Superposed shotgun (FN & Browning)
patents 1,578,638-39 granted March 30, 1926; 12, 20, 28, & .410 ga., first produced by FN in 1930, appeared in Browning Arms Co. line in 1931; JMB’s last invention

47. 12 gauge pump action shotgun
patent 345,882 granted July 20, 1886; sold to Winchester but never manufactured; model differs somewhat from the patent

48. 12 gauge pump action shotgun
same as #47; model identical

49. 10 gauge pump action shotgun
patent 356,271 granted January 18, 1887; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

50. 10 gauge pump action shtogun
same as #49

51. 10 gauge lever action shotgun
patent 376,576 granted January 17, 1888; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

52. 12 guage lever action shotgun
covered same as #51

53. 12 gauge pull-apart shotgun
patent 487,659 granted December 6, 1892; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

54. 12 gauge pump action shotgun
patent 552,864 granted January 7, 1896; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

55. 12 gauge pump action shotgun
patent 550,778 granted December 3, 1895; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

56. 12 gauge pump action shotgun
patent 577, 281 granted February 16, 1897; sold to Winchester but never manufactured

57. Early gas-operated firearms
Using a .44 Winchester Model 73, JMB designed a crude gas operated experimental model, precursor to his later machinegun designs; none of his experimental models survive; patent 417,782 was granted March 29, 1892 embodying the gas operation principal; patents on two new gas-operated automatic guns were filed August 3, 1891 and granted March 29, 1892; both guns tapped gas energy from the muzzle, but did so in completely different ways

58. First Browning machine gun and subsequent models
patent 471,783 granted March 29, 1892; caliber .45/70; 600 rpm, fed by fabric belt

59. Model 1895 automatic machine gun (Colt)
patent 544,657 granted August 20, 1895; calibers .30/40 Krag, 6mm Lee

60. Model 1917 .30 caliber machine gun (Colt, Remington, Westinghouse, & others)
patent 678,934 granted July 23, 1901; sometimes known as the Browning Model 1901, it was never manufactured in its original form; Browning changed the ejection from right side to bottom, and increased the rate of fire. These improvements were covered under patent 1,293,021, granted February 4, 1919; .30/06 caliber, 600rpm, link belt fed; water cooled

61. .50 caliber Browning water-cooled machine gun
patent 1,628,226 granted May 10, 1927; caliber .50BMG; 750-850rpm; link belt fed; water cooled

62, 63, 64. 37MM aircraft cannons (Colt, Vickers, & others)
patents 1,525,065-67 granted February 3, 1925; 37mm air cooled magazine fed; 135rpm

65. .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol
patent 580,923 granted April 20, 1897; rights sold to Colt along with 3 others, but never manufactured; gas operated

66. .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol
patent 580,926 granted April 20, 1897; blowback action

67, 68. .38 caliber semi-automatic pistols
#67 patent 580,925 granted April 20, 1897; #68 patent 708,794 granted September 9, 1902; first Browning pistols to employ positively locked recoiling barrel

69. .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol
patent 580,925 granted April 20, 1897; sold to Colt but never produced; first to employ Browning’s grip safety

70. Model 1900 .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol (Colt)
patent 580,924 granted Arpil 20, 1897; caliber .38 ACP; introduced on market in February 1900

71. Model 1900 .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol (FN)
patent 621,747 granted March 21, 1899; caliber .32ACP (7.65mm Browning)

72. Model 1903 pocket .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol (Colt)
patent 747,585 granted December 22, 1903; caliber .32ACP

73. Model 1903 9mm military semi-automatic pistol (FN)
Belgian patent filed before US patent; blowback operated, concealed hammer; caliber 9mm Browning Long

74. .45 caliber military model semi-automatic pistol
prototype of M1911, covered under same patent as #75

75. Model 1911 Government .45 Caliber Automatic Pistol (Colt, Remington, and others)
Patent filed February 17, 1910 and # 984,519 granted February 14, 1911; second patent #1, 070,582 covering details of the mechanical safety granted August 19, 1913; caliber .45ACP

76. .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol model vest pocket (FN, Colt, Browning, & others)
patent 947,478 granted January 25, 1910; caliber .25ACP

77. Models 1910 & 1922 semi-automatic pistols (FN & Browning)
Design completed in 1910, patented in Belgium shortly thereafter; calibers .32ACP & .380ACP (9mm Browning Short)

78. .22 caliber L.R. semi-automatic practice pistol
This model was one of three or four JMB invented in 1915 in response to the US Army’s desire to have a rimfire practice pistol with handling characteristics similar to the M1911; none were ever produced; some were lost either through theft or disassembly

79. Woodsman .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol (Colt)
patent 1,276,716 granted August 27, 1918; first called the Colt .22 Automatic Target Pistol, in 1927 Colt renamed it the Woodsman

80. 9mm parabellum semi-automatic pistol
Never patented or produced

81. 9mm parabellum semi-automatic pistol (FN, Browning, & others)
patnet 1,618,510 granted February 22, 1927, three months after Browning’s death. First produced by FN in 1935 as the Model 1935

Many of Browning’s original models no longer survive. Some were lost, others stolen, and many were disassembled for later experiments. Not mentioned in the above list are patents for 32 entire firearms for which there are no known surviving models. Browning also invented and patented a device for loading cartridges into machine gun belts.

The Browning Double Automatic shotgun was invented by John’s son Val A. Browning while he was president of the Browning Arms Co.

The FN-Browning Light Automatic Rifle, caliber .308, was not a Browning invention, though it bears his name. It was designed by D. D. Saive, Chief of Weapon Design and Development at FN. He gained extensive experience in automatic weapons working with JMB. “It is not surprising therefore that one finds in this rifle in several places features which first appeared in Browning mechanisms (gas intake and piston, wire-spring-actuated extractor, recoil spring housed in the buttstock) and thus it can be said that the weapon is of Browning inspiration-a natural consequence of more than fifty years of continuous collaboration between the FN and Brownng companies.â€

"Whoa" / Neo

45King, that's quite a testament to John Browning's abundant genius and also quite a testament to your abundant typing skills.

Did it in Word, including ubb coding, then copy'n'paste.
Some things are worth the time and effort.