The image shows Lt. Lents of the Signal Corps at the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. in New Haven, Conn., during World War I. He is captured in the process of making Browning Machine Guns. The photograph focuses on the receiver of the gun, displaying the various stages of manufacture, from a block of steel to the finished receiver.

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Photo credit: © piemags/NSC / Alamy / Afripics
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