I'm upvoting you, because I think it is a legit question. He didn't invent striker fired pistols, or the use of polymer construction, but it was the Glock that

I'm upvoting you, because I think it is a legit question. He didn't invent striker fired pistols, or the use of polymer construction, but it was the Glock that took it from an oddball design, to 80%+ marketshare. Before the Glock, and it was a totally different world; heavy steel double and single action hammer fired pistols. Glock turned that upside down. He was amazingly influential. Maybe not as an inventor, but as a designer/engineer.