John Bell Blish

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John Bell Blish

John Bell Blish (born September 8, 1860 in Seymour , Indiana, † December 22, 1921 in Washington, DC ) was an American naval officer and weapons designer, who was mainly known for the blish lock named after him .

Life

John Bell Blish was one of the five children of the married couple John Hedding Blish (1821–1886) and Sarah Ewing Blish, b. Shields, (1835-1896).

Blish was First Officer ( Executive Officer ) to the warships Niagara and Vicksburg the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War in 1898. He went in 1919 with the rank of a frigate captain ( commander ) to retire.

Blish was married to Ida Benson Blish, b. Gurney, (1886–1960), they had three children.

John Bell Blish was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Act

Blish patented the locking system on March 9, 1915 in the name of the arms manufacturer Auto-Ordnance Corporation and received shares in the company for it. Under the direction of John T. Thompson , the weapon was developed to series production and manufactured by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in 1921/1922 in 15,000 copies as the Thompson Model 1921 submachine gun with a blish lock. These weapons had a rate of fire of 800 rounds / min, since the US Navy classified this rate as too high, the weight of the control piece was increased to reduce the rate (picture), resulting in a rate of 600 rounds / min. lowered.

Blish also invented the Blish Sounding Tube , a tube used to measure water depth, and the Blish prism , a sextant attachment .

In 1943, the US Navy named a warship the USS John Blish in honor of Blish .

  • Father John Hedding Blish

  • Patent drawing of the blish closure

  • Thompson Mod 1921, light control piece

  • Thompson Mod 1928, heavy control piece

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Blish on Naval History and Heritage Command, accessed May 22, 2018
  2. ↑ John Hedding Blish, Everingham Family History . Retrieved June 1, 2017
  3. ^ John Bell Blish in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Donald Blish in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/AGS/AGS-10_JohnBlish.html
personal data
SURNAME Blish, John Bell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American naval officer and weapons designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Seymour , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1921
Place of death Washington, DC