BROWNING, JOHN M. (1854-1926), American inventor, was born at Ogden, Utah, of Mormon parentage. In 1879 he secured a patent for a breech-loading, single-shot rifle, which he sold to the Remington Company. He designed many types of sporting fire-arms such as the Remington autoloading shot-guns and rifles; the Winchester repeating shot-guns, single-shot and re peating rifles; the Stevens rifles; and the Colt automatic pistols. In 1890 a machine-gun of his design, but known as the Colt, and in 1908 his automatic pistols were adopted by the U.S. Army. He later developed two types of machine-guns, which were adopted by the United States in 1918 for use in the World War. He died in Belgium on Nov. 26, 1926.