Ferdinand Mannlicher
- Category : Engineer-Civil
- Type : GP
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Four Ways 4
Biography
Austrian firearms designer, the inventor of the cartridge clip, which allows loading a box magazine in one motion. An inventive genius ahead of his time, many of his designs were failures because they were more advanced than the ammunition and metals of their day.
Mannlicher served as chief engineer of the Austrian Northern Railroad and then joined the Austrian Arms Company, Styr, in 1866. His first rifle design, a turning-bolt action, was not a notable success; but his
subsequent designs incorporated many advanced innovations and came into wide use in Europe. His first straight-pull, bolt-action rifle, 1884, led to the popular Model 1885 11-mm Austrian service rifle. The following year, he developed the cartridge clip and used it in the Model 1885. Later, the clip was almost universally adopted for automatic-feeding pistols and rifles. Mannlicher designed about 150 types of repeating guns, many of them automatic.
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