A MARVELLOUS CUN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2297, 16 September 1908, Page 1

A MARVELLOUS CUN.

“NOhSELESS, FLAB*LLESS, COLORLESS, FUMELESS.”

Tho “Dirilly Telegraph's” New York correspondent tehigraphu details ol Air Jbnugeirter’fi masterpiece, a “Houseless, iiashlcss, coHoulliesrs, f timeless gnu,” which, it is claimed, can' throw two million bullets an hoinr. Air Uanigortor is a: Brooklyn engineer. Compressed' air hi not tho force used, bo that not oven a hissing sound is produced. No dynamite, guncotton, nitroglycerine, or other chemical or explosive is employed to send the Niagara of bullets hustling <a mile through space at the rate of ">OO .a second, or 30,000 a. minute, when uie gun is worked! at ordinary speed, and 2,000,000 an hour if it is pushed/to -its maximum capacity. The velocity of tho projectile is from 1600 ft t<> 3000 H a. second, according to the will «i '.hr operator. There is no recoil, Use gnu never gets heated, it cannot explode, and two inch, can operate it. The cost of firing 1,000,000 bullets half an inch in diameter would he about £2. Tho cxjieiiL O- of firing 1,000.000 hullots requiring powder and sJwrit's is more thami £4OOO. The gun. works autcnnatiiKiilly. If the operators were to place 2,000,000 halls in tho magazine and turn, on the' .powder, the inen could go to dfinioi a-nd take a walk for an lliour, confident that while they had gone tlio gun. would continue to hurl bullets so long ,as one wens left in tho hopper. The .plan of the inventor is to mount the new gun on a truck similar to. a. motor-car, to be run by a 100 h.p. motor, which would give tlio carriage a speed of sixty miles an hour. The outfit, when ready for action, would weigh about 60001 h.