Ormond Mitchell Lissak

Ormond Mitchell Lissak (born February 5, 1861 in San José (California) , † May 22, 1912 in San Francisco ) was an American inventor and weapons technician.

Lissak attended St. Augustine College in Benicia and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1882 . He served in the United States Army first in the artillery , in 1889 he was transferred to the Ordnance Department . In the Spanish-American War he was the officer on duty in the Ordnance Department during the invasion of Puerto Rico . In 1900 he was transferred to the Frankford Arsenal . There he invented six machines to improve the workflow in cartridge production . From 1904 to 1908 he was a weapons technology teacher at the United States Military Academy. He was later posted to help Samuel Neal McClean with the construction of his water-cooled machine gun . Based on the preparatory work by McClean and Lissak, Isaac Newton Lewis developed the air-cooled Lewis machine gun , which was produced in large numbers during World War I. Because of health problems he left the US Army in 1910 with the rank of lieutenant colonel . Lissak was married and had one child.

Publications

Ordnance and gunnery: a text-book prepared for the cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point , original 1907, published 1915, John Wiley & Sons [2]

↑ The National cyclopædia of American biography, Volume 22 , New York 1936, James T. White & Company, p. 35 [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Lissak, Ormond Mitchell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American inventor and weapons technician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Jose (California)
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1912
Place of death	San Francisco