About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Gerald Bull, Ernest Emerson, Samuel Colt, Millis Jefferis, John Pedersen, Alan Bond, Chris Reeve, Stuart Macrae, Giovanni Luppis, Robert Mallet, Georg Luger, Oliver Winchester, Franz Gebauer, Eugene Stoner, James Paris Lee, Thorsten Nordenfelt, Philip Thomas Godsal, Aimo Lahti, Wilhelm Brenneke, Phill Hartsfield, Fathullah Shirazi, Stewart Blacker, Uziel Gal, Melvin Johnson, Boris Shpitalniy, J. Mike O'Dwyer, Helge Palmcrantz, Mikhail Koshkin, Jacob and Samuel Hawken, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, L. James Sullivan, Axel Welin, Mikhail Loginov, T.C. Johnson, Yves le Prieur, Martin von Wahrendorff, Yisrael Galil, Gordon B. Ingram, Rudolf Frommer, Jean Alexandre LeMat, Vasiliy Grabin, Fyodor Petrov, Frantz Lender, Lev Gorlitsky, August Conders, Amos Golan, Sergey Shukalov, Doron Tamir. Excerpt: Ernest R. Emerson (born March 7, 1955) is an American custom knifemaker, martial artist, and edged-weapons expert. Originally an engineer and machinist in the aerospace industry, Emerson became a knifemaker known for making decorative knives but later became better known for his combat knives, eventually founding a production company to mass-produce his designs, and popularizing a style of knife known as the Tactical-folder. Emerson's knives have been displayed as museum pieces, designed for use by Navy SEALs, and used by NASA in outer space. Emerson's knives have been featured in films and novels, furthering their popularity with collectors. Emerson is an accomplished martial artist who has developed a combatives system, Emerson Combat Systems, which has been taught to police officers, elite military units, and civilians. Ernest Emerson was born on March 7, 1955 in a 400-square-foot (37 m) log cabin built by his grandfather in northern Wisconsin, and was raised in a family of farmers, craftsme...
