For your 1911 reading pleasure

[bcp]

Browning's patent application for the 1911. Fifteen pages.

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/16/62/9d/530f34f02afc22/US984519.pdf

Might answer some questions about "why" and "what."

Bruce

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[Jade Falcon]

Imagine going through the painstaking process of developing an entirely new type of pistol at that time, and then having to type, or write, all of that.

He was not just a genius, but well ahead of his time. God bless JMB.