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Inventors of Weapons Invention Inventor Year Atom Bomb [caption id="attachment_1955" align="alignnone" width="300"] J Robert Oppenheimer[/caption] 1...
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| Invention | Inventor | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Atom Bomb |
[caption id="attachment_1955" align="alignnone" width="300"] J Robert Oppenheimer[/caption] |
1945 |
| Automatic Rifle |
[caption id="attachment_1957" align="alignnone" width="208"] John Browning[/caption] |
 1918 |
| Ballistic Missile |
[caption id="attachment_1958" align="alignnone" width="220"] Wernher vonBraun[/caption] |
 1944 |
| Bolt action rifle |
[caption id="attachment_1959" align="alignnone" width="238"] P von Mauser[/caption] |
 1889 |
| Guided Missile |
[caption id="attachment_1958" align="alignnone" width="220"] Wernher vonBraun[/caption]
|
 1942 |
| Hydrogen Bomb |
[caption id="attachment_1960" align="alignnone" width="209"] Edward Teller[/caption]
|
 1952 |
| Neutron Bomb |
[caption id="attachment_1964" align="alignnone" width="190"] Samuel T. Cohen[/caption] |
 1958 |
| Tank |
[caption id="attachment_1962" align="alignnone" width="222"] Sir Ernest D Swington[/caption] |
1914 |
| Machine gun |
[caption id="attachment_1963" align="alignnone" width="260"] James Puckle[/caption] |
 1718 |
| Revolver |
[caption id="attachment_1961" align="alignnone" width="300"] Samuel Colt[/caption] |
 1836 |
| AK-47 |
[caption id="attachment_1965" align="alignnone" width="268"] Mikhail Kalashnikov[/caption] |
1946 |
| Dynamite |
[caption id="attachment_1966" align="alignnone" width="220"] Alfred Nobel[/caption] |
1867 |