Edgar Brandt (1880-1960)


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Name (English): Edgar Brandt
Short name: Edgar Brandt
Year of birth: 1880
Year of death: 1960
Short Description: Edgar William Brandt (24 December 1880 – 8 May 1960) was a French ironworker and prolific weapons designer. In 1901 he set up a small workshop at 76 rue Michel-Ange in the 16th arrondissement in Paris, where he began designing, silversmithing, and forging small items such as jewelry, crosses, and brooches. His business began to take off with special commissions such as the door of the French Embassy in Brussels, the Escalier Mollien stairs in the Louvre, and the stair and balcony railing for the Grand Theatre Municipal de Nancy.

At the start of World War I in 1914 Brandt was called to serve. Observing a need for mortars in trench warfare, he designed 60mm, 81mm and 120mm versions that were very widely copied throughout and subsequent to World War II. He also invented discarding-sabot artillery shells[citation needed] and contributed substantially to the development of effective HEAT-warhead weapons for infantry anti-tank use through his development of heatrifle grenades.[citation needed]
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