Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-18 | Page 12 | Famous Inventor is Home for Holidays

FAMOUS INVENTOR IS HOME FDR HOLIDAYS John M. Browning, Back on Vacation, Working on New Machine Gun. 'I'K'ia! to The Tribune. 'MiDE.V, 1 17. Willi hU cliararlrr-&'.U: cliararlrr-&'.U: quiet and reserved manner, John M. Drowning, inventor of machine guns '.vnicll were used by the allied troops in th viir against Germany, arrived in 1 'Hlen hist night for a snort v i v i t dur- , t.lu- holidays. It la to bo the first j ''iir-iilun (Jf tin; Inventor huh-: the e;i.rly j f'iirl ,( i:17, when I in went to Marl-ford, Marl-ford, I'liiin., to direct, tin: manufacture "f tli ma-hine minis whii'h played such an Important, part in Iho world con-f con-f Jlrr. When apprninhed by newspaper men "or ii interview, Mr. 1'irowning said that lie wuh not In a position to dlscuns MUriM at t h Ik time.. He said t.liat lie was home to Hpend the holidays ii nd sported return to Hartford aTter tlie first of fie yuar. f'Vom members of the Hrou'ning family It was learned that the inventor's anti-, alrcijifl and iiiititank machine gun la one 'hur. will revolutionize wsirfare. This now ' Hun, of which, it is stated, only a few ''ere made- thus f:ir, fires a one-inch u-'d bullet which will peiree the armor pfiun of an airplane or a ta rik. Tlily Run, It Is stated, would have been In action against the Germans in January Janu-ary had the war kept up. It is said the rtrownlni; air-cooled and water-cooled machine cruris did effective work in the ! closing three, months of the war.