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Old 01-23-2016, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Collo Rosso View Post
Browning was a brilliant man but parts inter changeability among same machines was achieved before he was born and the idea older than this country.
This is a bit off topic, but just to set the record straight, I wasn't talking about machines or other products from the Industrial Revolution or anything pre-1900.

Nor was I implying that Browning came up with the idea of parts interchangeability. Of course he didn't. I said that was one of the concepts he used in the 1911 to further the chances of his pistol being adopted for military use. He wanted to sell his pistol to the U. S. Army, and parts interchangeability in the field was one of the things the Army was looking for.