Edmund Zalinski

Biography

Edmund Zalinski devoted his career to the United States Army, serving as an engineer who combined steady leadership with a keen interest in artillery and ordnance. He shared his knowledge with cadets and fellow officers as he helped shape the Army's science of gunnery in the decades after the Civil War.

He is remembered for inventing the pneumatic dynamite gun and for publishing technical treatises that broadened the understanding of modern warfare; he died in 1909 and was laid to rest at Mount Hope Cemetery.