A WONDERFUL WEAPON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2126, 18 November 1890, Page 4

A WONDERFUL WEAPON.

M. (jriffaril, the inventi r ojf the.pvonderful eun in which liquefied gas serves as a noiseless bat dead y substiiu’e for powder, is now (oc. 11) in London. Speaking of bis be said ;! “ I wont tell you of the experiments we have bjen making at the Paris |Gas Company fyr neatly twenty years for the compression of steam and air and, the liquefaction of gas, but theGiffar) ,gun is the outcome. The French Government bought the rights for the rifle as « weapon of war and the Oolts bought the rights to the patents for £200,000 The rifle, of course,, differs first land foremost from every gun in not requiring powder. Liquefied gas is 0ne...0f the most powerful explosives known. If one drop en'ers ' the breech of the jgnn when the trigger is pa led the bullet, is sent with a force equal to 500-ppund pressure to the square inch,. By , the turn of a screw yon can r gulate the speed rf the bn let, .which leaves the barrel without m ise, smoke, smell, heat or recoil, 1 here is no danger of explosion, an i the su bst.it ue for gunpowder is ii finitely cheaper, from 240, to 300 bullets being fired at the cost of a penny. Liquefied gas will r.’,v.j'qtipnise all 1 the present theories emesming steam and other motive powers.”. . ■ ~ j , ;