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Dr, Frederick Carten, Chief of Army Ordnance

Wehrmacht_45
The father of the M-14 had a Ph.D. However all of the books I have fail to say in what. Does anyone who is a gun history nut know? I am giving a history paper in Kansas City on the Light Rifle Project of the 1950's on Sunday and I know some jerk will ask that question.


He was the head of rifle development in the Office Chief of Army Ordnance.
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  • iwannausername
    You gonna mention the T-48 FAL in your presentation?
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  • givette
    Frederick Carten is not on the list of Chiefs' of Army Ordnance per the Wikipedia site. I would question Wik. but the list is all-inclusive (unbroken) since the late 1700's.

    Don't wish to aggravate, just perhaps we should be looking under a different heading than Chief of Ordnance? Thanks, Joe
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  • Wehrmacht_45
    Sorry Office Chief of Army Ordnance would not fit in the subject area. We was Chief of Small Arms Development and Research when Col. Renee Studler retired in 1953.


    And yes I am going to talk about the T48/FAL and the Brit EM-2. I will also be talking about the T25, T44, T37 rifles.
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  • beantownshootah
    This is a bit of a wild connection, but I just scrounged up a paper in organic chemistry from MIT in the 1940s, listing Frederick H. Carten as an author, as part of his PhD dissertation in June of 1939.

    While, this alone doesn't prove that its is the same guy, its pretty likely that it is. (How many Dr. Frederick H. Cartens can there be from that era?)?

    Presumeably, then, he earned a PhD in Chemistry from MIT.

    Given MIT's long history of support for military type technology, with an active ROTC program, this connection is plausible, and probably correct.


    Link here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja01860a014
    quote:Research Article
    Identification of Organic Compounds. I. Chlorosulfonic Acid as a Reagent for the Identification of Aryl Halides

    Ernest H. Huntress, Frederick H. Carten
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1940, 62 (3), pp 511-514
    DOI: 10.1021/ja01860a014
    Publication Date: March 1940
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  • Wehrmacht_45
    Thanks. I was under the assumption it would have been under some sort of engineering program. However, it is hard to dig up much without going through archives. Being he was possibly a chemist, he might have worked in propellant or lubrication before working up to general small arms R&D.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    You might want to ready "M14 - from John Garand to M21".
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  • Colt Super
    T-26 ??

    D.
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