A NEW TERROR.
HUGE NOISELESS GUN. .RANGE OF .300 MILES. By Telegraph-—Pregg Assn.—Copyright. Received July 10, 11.5 p.m. New York, July 9. Dr. Hutchinson, formerly Edison’s chief engineer, gave a demonstration of a new gun able to hurl a five-ton projectile 200 to 300 miles, the discharge being noiseless and smokeless and without recoil. Smokeless powder is ptil- , ised. The gnn can develop a muzzle velocity of five miles a second. The extraordinary powers are due to the fact that powder is burned, all of it being consumed before the projectile is discharged. A miniature specimen of the gun was used—only eight inches long—but the principle for the greater gun would be the same.
Mr. Hudson Maxim declared that it was wonderful, and another armament expert eaid: “It will do more eventually to bring peace than the peace conference; it will make war too terrible.” The gun is the invention of Mr. John Temple, a Britisher.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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158A NEW TERROR. Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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