WONDERFUL NEW GUN
ARMAMENT EXPERTS ASTOUNDED GREAT PROJECTILE THROWN FOR 300 MILES By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Rec. July 10, 11.5 p.m.) New York, July 9. Dr. Hutchinson, formerly Edison’s chief engineer, gave a demonstration of a new gun which is able to hurl a five-ton projectile 209 to 300 miles, the discharge being noiseless, smokeless, and without recoil. Smokeless powder is utilised. The gun can develop a muzzle velocity of five miles per second. Its extraordinary powers are due to the fact that the powder is burned, all of it being consumed before the projectile is discharged, lhe miniature specimen gun used is only eight inches long, but the principle for a greater gun would be the sama Hudson Maxim declared it to ho wonderful. Another armament expert said: “It will do more eventually to bring peace than the Poaee Conference. It will make war too terrible.” The gun is the invention of J° hn Temple a Britisher.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 245, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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160WONDERFUL NEW GUN Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 245, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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